For many Casselman residents, the water still isn’t “quite right.”
“We still get quite a bit of buildup on our showerheads and our appliances I find,” said Amanda Brasseur. “We’ve been here so long but the water would be one of the factors why we would move out of Casselman.”
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For months last year, residents dealt with smelly, discoloured water caused by high levels of manganese, a naturally occurring mineral. The municipality gets its water from the South Nation River and it plans to build a 22-kilometre pipeline to connect its system to the one in Clarence-Rockland.
“That stuff is all stuff that’s going to take forever. It’s going to cost a fortune,” said Caroline Thomspon.
Casselman’s mayor met with Ontario’s infrastructure minister at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in Ottawa this week …