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The city continues to have the safest drinking water in Ontario.
Despite concerns about a massive spill of raw sewage into the Ottawa River two years ago the province’s Ministry of the Environment’s chief drinking water inspector has declared city drinking water among the safest in the world.
The MOE inspected all of the city’s water production processes from treatment, distribution, emergency planning, customer relations, staff training and certification, and water quality monitoring. The MOE gave the City the highest possible inspection rating of 95 to 100 per cent.
Most of the City’s drinking water is drawn from the Ottawa River and treated at the city’s two water purification plants, Britannia and Lemieux Island. It is then distributed through a number of pumping stations, reservoirs and 2,700 km of water mains for consumption. Water from these plants is tested regularly to check its physical, inorganic, organic, microbiological and radiological characteristics. These results are then analysed to confirm that quality is maintained as the water travels through the distribution system on its way to homes and workplaces in Ottawa.
“We recognize how important drinking water is and we take great pride in the quality of our water,” said Peter Hume, Chair of the City’s Planning and Environment Committee.
(C) Ottawa Sun