{"id":415330,"date":"2026-01-17T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415330\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:48:32","slug":"wrigley-boil-water-advisory-over-treatment-system-critical-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415330\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrigley boil-water advisory over treatment system \u2018critical failure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrigley residents are being told to boil their drinking water for at least a minute because the community\u2019s water treatment system has had a \u201ccritical mechanical failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday notice, the NWT\u2019s chief environmental health officer said the water can\u2019t be properly treated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community, in collaboration with Maca, is working to resolve the mechanical failure as soon as possible,\u201d the advisory stated.<\/p>\n<p>More guidance is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hss.gov.nt.ca\/en\/services\/boil-water-advisory\/frequently-asked-questions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the GNWT\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How the treatment system failed \u2013 and when it failed \u2013 were not specified in Wednesday\u2019s advisory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement.<br \/><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTg1NCwxNSw2MA==\" href=\"https:\/\/sarahpruysphoto.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SPP-Cabin-Radio-ad-20253.jpg\" width=\"300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Advertisement.<br \/><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTkyMSwxNSw2MA==\" href=\"www.NorthernUnitedPlace.com\/residential\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NWT-Community-Services-Corp-3.png\" width=\"300px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, the NWT\u2019s Department of Health and Social Services said Wrigley had not reported any quarterly water testing results to the territory\u2019s environmental health unit since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrigley residents are being told to boil their drinking water for at least a minute because the community\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,84,66,32943],"class_list":{"0":"post-415330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wrigley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}