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http://i.cbc.ca/1.2727323.1407212125!/f ... s-pond.jpgA complete water ban affecting about 300 local residents is in effect after five million cubic metres of tailings pond wastewater from the Mount Polley copper and gold mine was released early Monday into Hazeltine Creek.
That's an amount of water equivalent to about 2,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Local residents are calling it an environmental disaster.
UPDATE | Mount Polley Mine tailings pond dam stabilized, says Imperial Metals
RAW VIDEO | Aerial view of massive B.C. mine tailings spill
The waterways affected by the ban, which earlier included Quesnel Lake, Polley Lake, Hazeltine Creek and Cariboo Creek, now also include the entire Quesnel and Cariboo river systems right up to the salmon-bearing Fraser River.
Authorities are asking people in the region to stop using water from both rivers.
Those areas are sparsely populated and the Cariboo Regional District has not determined how many additional people have been affected.
The ban does not apply to people in Williams Lake or other towns along the Fraser River.
Authorities had previously said the small town of Likely, B.C., was not directly affected, because it was unclear how many people in the town used water from Quesnel Lake.
But since then, the Cariboo Regional District has decided to start delivering water to Likely because the main supplier of bottled water in the area, a small grocery store, could not keep up with the demand.
Effluent from copper-gold mine operations can include harmful chemicals such as arsenic, mercury, and sulphur.
On mobile? Click here to see video of swollen Hazeltine Creek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAItFxc8bMEhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -disaster-