CTV News anchor Tara Nelson sat down with Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek to talk about the issues that concerned Calgarians in 2024, including the water main break, the Green Line, affordable housing and the city’s relationship with the provincial government.
This interview has been edited for length.
Q: Why don’t we start with the one issue I think impacted all Calgarians this year and that was the water main break. Can you explain as simply as possible what the investigation into the cause (of the break) determined?
Gondek. What we know with the incident review that we’ve received is that there were chlorides in the soil, there were conditions that created corrosion of the steel wires and there was cracking of the mortar that coats the pipe.
Now what we also know from the consultants that we hired and our internal team is that there was no consistency of all of those conditions so it’s not like everywhere …