When Wilfred Ntiamoah, a Nunavut environmental health officer, assessed Iqaluit’s water treatment plant on Oct. 8, the smell of diesel was so intense he had to leave the building to get some fresh air.
That was six days after the Department of Health first began investigating public concerns over a fuel smell in Iqaluit’s drinking water. It would be another four days before the City of Iqaluit told its residents stop drinking the tap water due to possible fuel contamination.
Documents obtained by CBC through an access to information request show Ntiamoah flagged what smelled like diesel at the plant — an odour Ntiamoah described as
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