No shortage of murky water issues in White Rock - literally and figuratively
White Rock resident Beverly McLaughlin took this photo of the water in her washing machine last fall. She said "aesthetically, it's very unpleasing." On June 5, there were more reports of dark-coloured water coming from the taps in White Rock homes. Just when you think the White Rock water utility takeover couldn’t get any murkier, it does – both literally and, more importantly, figuratively. In just one week, the public learned that (yet again) the water is cloudy and disgusting to look at; the federal government has moved in to help Semiahmoo First Nation get clean water and get out of any dealings with White Rock’s water system; and the city and Metro Vancouver are pulling out all the stops in court to keep every possible detail of the takeover of the water system secret. The dirty water story came from Coldicutt Avenue resident Derek Sigurdson. He was leaving his house June 5 when he was stopped by a neighbour carrying a glass of brown water. “He said, ‘...