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Gonna be a bit of a rant.  
Somehow I can't seem to find any discussion on their water issues from this summer. Was curious about the end results. Perhaps it was in the paper though and I missed it. but from what I've heard, they still aren't resolved and aren't expected until next year.  
 
this is what I've heard perhaps someone can correct me or fill in the blanks:  
a section was washed out during flooding, which cut off the homes on north side of 'river' (8? or so). Those homes use wells and aren't connected to the town water supply. So since the wash out the water level is too low and they have none available in their residences. So some of them were carrying pails or jugs of water to their homes to use.  
Apparently there is a supply pipe coming up on the North side, but hasn't been connected yet to any of those homes. Even though there have been some residents offer to pay to have the line trenched to their houses.  
 
So now some of them have resorted to buying external water tanks to sit outside and hookup to provide water until this gets sorted out next year.

What happened this summer was a very unfortunate event. It will have a impact on every person in the province through taxes to rebuild the dam. It’s terrible that your water situation isn’t what your accustomed to. But at least they have a solution in place and a plan to get there. Try to look at the bright side it’s only one year of water issues and not a life of water issues like some reserves face.

oh it doesnt affect me at all. I was just surprised at hearing they werent doing anything about it for those families when all that was require for them was running the supply line  
 
Edited by M.T., 2020-11-04 09:15:40

Can anyone tell me why they don't drill deeper wells to replace the shallow wells that went dry instead of water tanks that may freeze?

Digging a deeper well isn't an affordable option for most, especially if the issues is temporary.  
 
Few other reasons might be the layers of the soil, if you go to deep you can hit salt water in some places (IDK about Rivers) and if the loss of water is because of external issues the home owner may not be responsible for the costs ect  
 
Hauling water isn't ideal but cheapest solution for a temporary fix