CTV has uncovered antifreeze in a creek in North Kildonan.

Bunn’s Creek, which runs alongside the Bunn's Creek Trail, has an unknown quantity of antifreeze flowing through the waterway.

CTV gathered a sample of the creek water on Friday, May 1 because there was a cloudy, slick material coming out of a pipe. But the time CTV collected a sample, the slick was no longer visible.

Still, CTV passed the sample to University of Winnipeg toxicology and water quality expert Eva Pip.

She ran tests over the weekend and found the water had “significant quantities of ethylene-glycol, which is antifreeze," she said.

It’s not known how much antifreeze spilled, how long it has been in the water, or how it got there, because antifreeze dissipated in water over time.

"Either there has been a spill that was washed into sewer water or a ditch or it may have been deliberate dumping too," said Pip, adding it will take two to three weeks for the antifreeze to break-up and for the water to become safe again.

The environmental hazard is not sitting well with people who frequent the park and walk by the creek with their dogs.

"They would die. It's terrible. It's disgusting,” said Brigitte Graeff, who was walking her son’s dog Monda, and has lived in the area for more than 20 years. For now, she would like to see signs posted about the poison posted by the creek.

Longtime-area resident and former city councillor Don Mitchelson doubts the spill is due to just one person, and believes an industrial user is responsible.

He said he's seen materials lurking in the creek on and off for 30 years.

Eva Pip said, if ingested, antifreeze can damage the brain and kidneys, and the contaminated creek water is a concern because animals are attracted to the sweet taste of antifreeze.

She said she found about two drops of antifreeze per litre, but because it dissipates over time it's hard to tell how much got in the water in the first place.

The city said in this part of Winnipeg land drainage is separated from home sewer systems, and this drain is not connected to the sewer system.

A city crew went to check it out on Friday, May 1 and concluded the murky water was due to runoff from rain water.

Coun. Jeff Browaty said it doesn’t make sense industrial materials would be coming out of this pipe, so the source of the antifreeze is one we can't answer tonight.