The District of Kitimat’s (DOK) water system was built at the same time as the town, 70 years ago. At that time and up until the 1970s it was quite common for municipalities to use asbestos cement ...

But that's little comfort for Michael Abercrombie a plumber who worked with asbestos cement pipes in the 1970s and '80s in Ontario. "That seems unbelievable to me," Abercrombie told CTV.

Asbestos cement pipes make up about 10 per cent of the city’s water distribution system. This is far less than in Prince George at (67 per cent), Regina and St. Albert (about just under 40 per cent) ...

Patterson noted PUC stopped installing asbestos-concrete pipes in its water mains in 1969 and, according to its records, never had more than 2 per cent of that pipe in its system.