City shuts down river intake; oil detected downstream from Paynton
Oil has been detected downstream from Paynton, where efforts have been ongoing to contain a spill of diluted heavy oil into the North Saskatchewan River.
The city of North Battleford said Friday, July 22 it had shut down the F.E. Holliday Water Treatment Plant, after oil was detected in the Delmas area at roughly 11 a.m.
“This morning they saw the sheen downstream from us,” Stewart Schafer, the city’s director of operations said Friday. “Husky reported to water security that they … saw a sheen and so everything gets shut right down.
“How much, how big, I couldn’t tell you.”