With the suffocating heat and small rain in sight, the Montrealers should consider how they are using the city’s drinking water supply, says the city councilor Maja Vodanovic, who handles the water archive in the Executive Committee.
In it Pierrefonds-Oxboro Borough, residents must reduce their water consumption to an additional warning after an irrigation prohibition issued Monday night.
Residents attended by the Pierrefonds drinking water production plant, namely, those of Bend–despair–Ormeaux, Senneville and Holy-Nne-from-beelvue, you will be forbidden to use water for several outdoor purposes, including watering the grass, wash the vehicles, sprinkle inputs and alleys and fill the existing pools to maintain the quality of drinking water.
“This notice is due to the poor water quality of the Rivière despair Prasias, caused by a fall in water levels, “says the notice issued by the city.
As a result, the treatment plant to produce drinking water is under tension. However, the city says that tap water is still “excellent.”
“We have no water shortage, but it could happen if there is no rain for a very long period of time that we have problems in certain places,” Vodanovic said in an interview early Monday.
Montreal is one of several Canadian cities that experience “excessive heat” on Monday, says the senior climatologist of Environment and Climate Change from Canada (ECCC) David Phillips.
Temperatures in the city are expected to reach 34 C until Tuesday, although moisture, exacerbated by a high pressure system, will make it feel like 40, according to ECCC.
With temperatures greater than 30 C and little rain in sight, heat exerts some pressure on the city’s water treatment plants. City officials say that Montrealers should consider how they are using the city’s drinking water supply.
“It is this high bermuda, it is a great crest that feels like a lid on … East of Canada and it is absolutely not to let any circulation in, that is why we are seeing such drought conditions,” said Phillips.
In the St. Lawrence River, heat and low precipitation rate have reduced water level to its lowest in four years. On Sunday morning, the water level in eastern Montreal was 4.1 meters, 60 centimeters below the median.
Vodanovic calls the fall because it makes water treatment more expensive and intensive in chemicals.
“Less water means less dilution, so everything that is industrial discharge, sewerage discharge, of course, will concentrate more on the raw water we take in our plant and [make] The most arduous treatments, “he said.
They also use chemicals to neutralize the taste of algae, which can be stronger when the water level is low, he says.
The river level is 60 centimeters below the average, the lowest in four years. That is affecting drinking water and even businesses in the port of Montreal.
The low water level in St. Lawrence also stops traffic in the Seaway, adds Vodanovic. Load ships cannot maximize their load if they run the risk of dragging on the bottom of the sea.
“Then, there is less commercial exchange with Ontario, with the United States, so there is an economic cost that is very significant for the country he said.
Vodanovic says he will wait for rain soon, and in the meantime: let your grass patch yellow.
“It’s fine … the grass doesn’t die even if it’s yellow,” he said.
