Public Utilities Commission of the Town of Walkerton

Walkerton was not one failed water sample or one delayed warning. It was a chain in which a vulnerable source, inadequate disinfection, unreliable residual records, mislabelled sampling, a laboratory notification gap, weak local oversight and incomplete provincial enforcement kept decisive evidence from becoming protective action. The accountability test is who had to keep each barrier real, who could stop unsafe supply, and how the public could know that an adverse result had reached someone required to act.