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The District of Muskoka is investigating the unexplained failure of a wastewater control system on October 28, 2017 at the Coveside pumping station on Highway 60 in the Town of Huntsville that resulted in sewage back up to a number of homes and businesses.<\/span><\/a> The system failed when the pumps turned off automatically and no alarms were issued. This type of failure has never occurred before and the District is working with consultants to investigate the cause. In the interim, safeguards have been put in place to prevent the failure from reoccurring and notification has been made to all regulatory agencies as per standard process.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe take this very seriously and an investigation is underway to determine the root cause of the control system failure that resulted in this incident,” said Fred Jahn, The District of Muskoka’s Commissioner of Engineering and Public Works. \u201cWe also recognize that communication with the residents was not satisfactory and we will work quickly to correct this with the affected residents and implement a communication protocol going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

The District would like to extend their apologies to all property owners affected by for this unpredictable failure and resulting sewage back up. All claims will be reviewed by the District\u2019s insurance adjusters. As a measure of prevention, property owners should also consider installation of backwater valves on their individual properties to prevent this type of flooding in the future.<\/p>\n

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