Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi says he wasn’t informed that Calgary’s largest feeder main, which ruptured for a second consecutive year last week, had been flagged as high risk of failure while he was in office.
The Bearspaw South Feeder Main, which carries about 60 percent of Calgary’s potable water, was recommended for inspection in 2017, 2020, and 2022, but those inspections were deferred or redirected, even though the feeder was repeatedly recognized as a high consequence risk, according to an independent panel’s report released Jan. 7 on the feeder main’s 2024 failure.
