Notice of Service Disruptions Tomorrow, June 11, Davis Day

There will be a temporary street closure on Plummer Ave from Baker St to St Anne St from 10 am to 1 pm tomorrow, June 11th for Davis Day celebrations. As a result of the street closure, transit buses will detour from Heelan St to Wilson Ave, then Gibbon St before returning to Plummer Ave. The return trip will follow the same route in reverse.

Glace Bay residents are advised that there will be no curbside collection on Davis Day, Wednesday, June 11. Extra garbage bags and green cart material will be collected in your area next regularly scheduled collection day. Blue bags will be collected in your area next regularly scheduled blue bag collection week.

NOTICE - STREET CLOSING (UNDEVELOPED)

A Portion of an Undeveloped Road Reserve, off Dalton Lane, Sydney,  Nova Scotia, Measuring Approximately 23,680.271  square feet +/-

Take notice that the Council of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality intends to close an Undeveloped Portion of a Road Reserve, Sydney, Nova Scotia, measuring approximately 23,680.271  square feet +/- more or less, which is more particularly delineated on the above map.

A public hearing in relation to the closing of the undeveloped portion of the said road reserve will be held on Tuesday, the 10 day of June, at 6:00 p.m. at the Council Chambers, 2^nd Floor, Civic Centre, 320 Esplanade, Sydney, Nova Scotia, at which time Council will hear those in favour and those opposed to the closing of a portion of this road reserve. 

Annual Lead and Copper Sampling for Residential Tap Water

May 27, 2025

The CBRM Water Utility is seeking volunteers for the 2025 annual lead and copper sampling program for residential tap water. The program is for customers of the CBRM Water Utility, not for those whose water source is a well.

The Water Utility routinely monitors water quality within distribution systems. In 2020, Nova Scotia Environment introduced additional sampling requirements for lead and copper within customers’ homes.

This sampling program will be provided free of charge to a limited number of customers in each CBRM distribution system (Sydney, Glace Bay, Northside, New Waterford, Louisbourg, Floral Heights and Centreville).

Participants will be registered on a first come, first served basis until the program goals are met. The program occurs every year, but sampling will not begin until July.

People can sign up online at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z_LdnqOc50CxgTv-pIzMVXwfDnlLQ41hmetmG0oqFrA

This water sampling will determine if lead and copper are present in customers’ tap water, and a results letter will be provided. Although lead and copper can occur naturally in the environment, a main source in drinking water is through leaching of plumbing materials such as pipes, solder, faucets, and fittings. While copper is an acceptable material for use in plumbing, lead is no longer an acceptable building material.

The National Plumbing Code allowed lead material in pipes until 1975, lead in solder until 1986, and lead in fittings or faucets until 2013. In 2019, Health Canada lowered the maximum acceptable concentration for lead in drinking water from 0.010 mg/L to 0.005 mg/L, and introduced a new maximum acceptable concentration for copper of 2 mg/L.

Health Canada also changed the acceptable locations for sample collection. Samples for lead and copper must now be collected within homes and buildings where customers obtain water for drinking and cooking.

The municipality aims to conduct sampling at approximately 150 residences from among the municipality's water system customers.