MOUNTAIN VIEW COUNTY - An Alberta Emergency water alert issued Tuesday morning for everyone within 25 kilometres of Sundre was made in error, officials said.
“It was a training exercise,” Mountain View County spokesperson Shelley French told the Albertan. “We do these routine exercises through AEMA and we issued it through the training site and somehow it went to the public alert system.
“We are just looking into what happened, but there is no cause for concern. It was an exercise only and it definitely is not something that taking place. There’s nothing to be alarmed about and there is no emergency in place.”
This is an Alberta Emergency Alert. Mountain View County has cancelled a Water Supply Alert.
— Alberta Emergency Alert (@AB_EmergAlert) February 25, 2025
This alert is no longer in effect.
This threat has been resolved and the incident has ended. No threat currently exists and no action is needed.https://t.co/888R2SPIUA #ABemerg
The alert stated that Mountain View County advised that the Winchell Lake water treatment plant south of Water Valley will be turning off the potable water system on Tuesday, February 25 at 8 a.m.
The county issued a public notice on all its social media sites shortly before 10 a.m.
"Today, February 25, 2025 at approximately 8:50 a.m., a training alert was issued through the Alberta Emergency Alert System for Mountain View County. Please note that this was part of a routine training exercise designed to ensure our staff are prepared and our emergency response systems are ready in the event of an actual emergency," the notice states.
"We want to clarify that this was inadvertently made public, and we are currently looking into the reason for that error. There is no cause for concern."
