Sewage water continues to seep into a large puddle near the entrance of a purple-coloured school-turned-compound that housed members of a cult in the southwest Saskatchewan village of Richmound for the last two years.
Although the “Kingdom of Canada” cult was driven out earlier this month after a police raid, the village’s Mayor Brad Miller says the sewage water — overflow from the toilets and sinks inside the building — remains.
“If there’s wind, people probably 500 feet away can smell it,” says Miller, 64, in an interview.
“If you get it on your hands or whatever, you can smell it for hours. It stinks like you wouldn’t believe.”
And Miller thinks daily about how to keep them out if the Kingdom of Canada returns.
“I’m fed up. My family’s fed up. If you came out to the southwest, peop