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Pond Inlet lifts 2-week-long state of emergency

Pond Inlet has lifted the state of emergency it declared more than two weeks ago because of a lack of sewage and water services.

60 homes had sewage overflows while trucks were out of service: deputy mayor

The Hamlet of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, declared a state of emergency earlier this month when two of three sewage trucks broke down, resulting in sewage spills around the hamlet. (Norman Koonoo/CBC)

Pond Inlet lifted its state of emergency on Thursday.

The hamlet declared the emergency more than two weeks ago when two out of three sewage trucks broke down and a pump at the lake where the community gets its drinking water had stopped working. 

Deputy mayor Joshua Arreak says the community now has three working sewage trucks.

But he says a big clean up still needs to happen because 60 homes had sewage overflows.