It’s almost been two weeks since nearly 250,000 liters of Oil spilled into the Saskatchewan River. In The Pas Municipal Superintendent Saman Mirza Agha says although we’re downstream from the spill its still weeks away. "The federal government is working on setting up a testing station at the Saskatchewan border to test the water quality, so if at some point, the oil happens to reach there, the federal government will know immediatly and notify us that it has reached that point."
Mirza Agha says our water is still drinkable and good in The Pas. But in a worst case scenario situation they do have 2 back up fire wells of water that could be turned on if need be.