A resident of the Mountainview Place trailer park is peeved that he has to foot a $1,200-bill to pay for a detached water valve.

'How many more people are they gonna burn with big bills like that?' George Luchyk asked during an interview this week.

'The line pulls off in the winter because of the frost. If they took time to put gravel under the valve, they wouldn't have this problem. It's clay underneath here.'

Luchyk purchased his trailer from Millennium Homes a year and a half ago. He said he was never warned about the possibility of a malfunction with his water valve.

'If I had known about this garbage, I would never have bought this trailer.'

Luchyk said he sent the bill for $1,200 to Millennium Homes but the company mailed it back.

He also mailed the bill to Castle Rock Enterprises, the contracting company that installed the valve, only to have it similarly sent back.

Finally, Luchyk approached the Yukon Housing Corp. and the City of Whitehorse. Neither will assume responsibility for the broken water valve.

'There's nothing you can do. I just can't believe it. Why doesn't someone take responsibility for this? Somebody's not doing their job here as far as I'm concerned,' said Luchyk.

'If it's happening over there, is it going to happen to us?' asked Nancy Armstrong, another resident of the trailer park.

'Why wasn't (the water valve) inspected properly? We're concerned.'

Armstrong added an inspector from Castle Rock said Millennium Homes should pay for the broken valve.

Doug Caldwell of the Yukon Housing Corp. and a spokesman from Millennium Homes both said the broken water valve is strictly a municipal issue.

However, Clive Sparks, director of operations for the city, said it's not a municipal issue, nor a government issue, nor a Millennium Homes issue.

'The water line would have been installed by a contractor,' Sparks said.

'We as a city would not have installed (the valve).'

A spokesperson from Castle Rock would not comment on the situation, saying no one would be available until next week.

The trailer park was developed in the late 1990s.