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Category: Mold News | Tags: flood mold mould asthma flood protection
The basement floor of Laureen Moberly’s bungalow is a solid sopping mat of wet shirts, silt-covered jeans and shoes anchored to the concrete by dry mud.

Eleven inches up the wall, a straight dark line encircles the room, the high-water mark of a sudden weekend flood that rendered most of the family’s clothes toxic waste. The mildew reek grows more pungent every day. Already it is thick enough to taste.

Sixteen people, including 10 children, live in this vector of rot, mould and tears.

While Prime Minister Stephen Harper toured flooded regions of Saskatchewan Thursday, Ms. Moberly had given up hope that anyone would fix her recurring water woes.

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