{"id":9264,"date":"2025-10-07T14:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:53:24","slug":"region-of-queens-asks-users-to-cut-back-on-water-as-system-leaks-on-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/10\/07\/region-of-queens-asks-users-to-cut-back-on-water-as-system-leaks-on-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Region of Queens asks users to cut back on water as system leaks on rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Region of Queens says its reservoir is getting low, so it’s asking customers to use less water. (Photo via SneakyElbow via Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Region of Queens is asking its municipal water customers to restrict their usage to deal with drought conditions, as system-wide leaks appear to worsen.<\/p>\n

The municipality posted a notice on its Facebook page on Tuesday asking the 1,200 water users in Liverpool and Brooklyn to conserve water immediately.<\/p>\n

The post said that water levels in the Town Lake Reservoir have been dropping because of months-long drought conditions. The region did not mention a chronic system-wide leak problem that outside consultants have said gives the region a poor rating of water loss volumes compared to Canadian and international standards.<\/p>\n

Mayor Scott Christian has told QCCR that staff regularly monitor the reservoir’s levels. About two weeks ago, Christian said water levels were still fine.<\/p>\n

The region is asking people to limit their lawn and garden watering, fix any leaky faucets, take shorter showers and run dishwashers and washing machines with only full loads.<\/p>\n

The Region of Queens Water Utility is asking the Nova Scotia Regulatory and Appeals Board for a 106 per cent increase in water rates, or about a $348-a-year hike. In documents filed with the board, a consultant hired by the region says “there is excessive leakage within the (water) system”.<\/p>\n

Another report done for the region in 2024 found that the water system was losing more than 611,000 cubic metres, or 611 megalitres, per year due to leaks. Customers were using about 303,000 cubic metres, or 303 megalitres per year.<\/p>\n

That represents 69.1 per cent of total water supply. In 2021, that rate was 60.3 per cent.<\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Region of Queens is asking its municipal water customers to restrict their usage to deal with drought conditions, as system-wide leaks appear to worsen. The municipality posted a notice on its Facebook page on Tuesday asking the 1,200 water users in Liverpool and Brooklyn to conserve water immediately. The post said that water levels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3232,24,1374,2634,1153,3467,3468],"class_list":["post-9264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-nova-scotia-regulatory-and-appeals-board","tag-region-of-queens","tag-region-of-queens-water-utility","tag-town-lake-reservoir","tag-water","tag-water-leaks","tag-water-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}