No further chlorine is being added to the
Havelock North water supply from today, after tests for
contamination came back clear.
Council said it could take
a couple of days for the taste of the chlorine to completely
disappear.
The clear results today were the third in a row
which, under drinking water regulations, allowed chlorine
treatment to stop.
Very low levels of e-coli contamination
were discovered in the drinking water supply last
week.
Chlorine treatment was started
immediately.
Initial investigations threw suspicion on one
bore and it was unhooked from the system.
Council believed
it was possible the heavy rain of the previous few days had
led to the bore being contaminated by
stormwater.
Investigations are on-going and the bore will
not be reinstated into the system until council and the
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board are convinced the bore
is
secure.
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