The Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant is very capable of handling current and future challenges.

That’s the feeling of a Water Security Agency spokesperson in the light of a University of Saskatchewan researcher’s findings about algae blooms.

Patrick Boyle says the agency has made note of the discovery of additional toxins which are not yet at levels considered a threat to human health.

Boyle stresses the facility which supplies drinking water to Regina and Moose Jaw is equipped to meet the challenges the water supplying the plant currently pose including algae blooms.

He points out Buffalo Pound has had the necessary upgrades to head off potential problems and regulators would ensure that will also be the case in the future.

Boyle feels federal and provincial water regulators are on top of any potential threats to human health, especially after the 2001 cryptosporidium parasite that sickened 7-thousand people in North Battleford.

The Water Security Agency official also says about 90-percent of the province has local watershed plans which address issues like algae blooms.

(CJWW)