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Kejick Bay’s 17 Year Boil Water Advisory Is Over

Dryden, ON, Canada / CKDR
Feb 13, 2020 | 3:59 PM


Kejick Bay's 17 Year Boil Water Advisory Is Over

The ribbon has been cut as the community of Kejick Bay celebrates the Grand Opening of their new water treatment plant.

That ceremony took place earlier today in the Lac Seul First Nation Community.

They also revealed a nice new sign for the facility as well.

The celebration was well attended as many community leaders came out to rejoice that the almost 17 year boil water advisory ended in the First Nation community.

The attendance list includes: Lac Seul Chief Derek Maud, Sioux Lookout Mayor Doug Lawrance, Kenora MP Eric Melillo, Grand Chief of Treaty #3 Francis Kavanaugh and Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller.

Sioux Lookout Mayor Doug Lawrance says that many of us in communities like Sioux Lookout take clean running drinking water for granted and he is glad to see the community of Kejick Bay finally has that resource again.

Kenora MP Eric Melillo thanked the community of Lac Seul and the Minister of Indigenous Services for their hard work in making the plant a reality.

Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller says he is glad to see the project come to completion and see the community celebrate that they have clean, safe drinking water.

Miller also says one of the biggest challenges he believes the government faces is trying to regain trust in indigenous communities and he hopes his government continues to work on building ties.

He also says he is impressed with the new facility mentioning that it uses state of the art technology.

One part Miller talks about fondly is a celebratory drink of tap water they held in the arena.

This comes just a couple days after clean drinking water is also being celebrated in the First Nation Community of Northwest Angle #33.

A couple indoor pictures of the Water facility can be found below.