Potlotek Chief Wilbert Marshall

Compensation available to Cape Breton community after decades of dirty water

Compensation available to Cape Breton community after decades of dirty water

When Patricia Paul saw her bathtub filling with cloudy, brown water, she decided she’d had enough. She took a photo of the scene: three inches of water so thick and dark, the bottom of the tub couldn’t be seen – a sharp contrast to the white plastic tub walls decorated with duck and turtle stickers for her young children. “It was almost black, and it smelled gross,” Paul remembers.