Wheatley residents can expect to receive a gas monitor for their home or business in the next few weeks.
The municipality of Chatham-Kent plans to purchase up to 1,000 gas monitors to distribute to residents free of charge for home (indoor air) monitoring in the community of Wheatley. The gas monitors will be made available to the community to provide a greater level of reassurance as the Wheatley remedial work continues.
“They (fire department) will be going door-to-door,” said Chatham-Kent’s Director of Public Works, Ryan Brown.
The distribution will begin near the evacuation zone in the downtown part of Wheatley, where a gas explosion caused millions of dollars of damage and injuries. Brown says firefighters will then move to the outlying areas of town.
