BOIL WATER NOTICE LIFTED - THOMPSON STREET, MOUNT COOK
BOIL WATER NOTICE LIFTED - THOMPSON STREET, MOUNT COOK

Wellington Water advises that the boil water notice has been lifted for all of Thompson Street and 77 Nairn Street, Mount Cook as of Tuesday, 17 June. 

We acknowledge it has been disruptive over the last few days. We want to thank all impacted residents for their understanding, patience, and co-operation during this time.

The public network has been flushed and tested over the last 72 hours. Testing results of the water quality over this period have come back confirming that water is now safe to drink without boiling. 

We are advising residents who have been away and are returning home to run a cold tap for a few minutes to flush their pipes and any appliances connected to the water supply. Header tanks should be drained and refilled. 

 
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Published 2/04/2020

Water quality monitoring and response during lockdown

During the heightened national response to Covid-19, our top priority is providing clean drinking water and safe wastewater treatment to our community. We are concentrating our resources on these essential services and on keeping our frontline teams, who maintain them, safe and healthy. In this context, our water quality monitoring and response activity is being temporarily scaled back.

If there is an event that causes a significant risk to public health or the environment (e.g. a blocked wastewater main overflowing into the stormwater) our crews will always respond urgently. However our  work to investigate sources of background contamination (e.g. private cross-connections) within the network will be paused while we are under Covid-19 lockdown conditions. This is both to ensure we have additional crew resources to respond to any urgent issues, and because it is inappropriate for our crews to be entering private property and approaching residents to investigate cross-connections at this time.

We remain committed to working with our stakeholder councils and the community to look after the health of our urban waterways and keep our beaches swimmable. We will still sample and test the water at streams and beaches across the region regularly, and monitor the results. As New Zealand emerges from lockdown conditions, we will reassess our water quality monitoring and response resources, and provide an update as to when activity can return to pre-Covid-19 levels. 

What this means for our water quality monitoring programme

Our regular water quality monitoring across the region is continuing as normal throughout the national response to Covid-19. This programme consists of: 

  • Global Stormwater Consent (GSC): monthly sampling of 146 coastal and freshwater sites 
  • Recreational Water Quality, aka ‘Baywatch’: fortnightly sampling of 11 recreational beach sites during winter (April – Oct), expanded to 33 sites sampled weekly over summer
  • Freshwater monitoring: monthly sampling of 15 streams and other freshwater sites, (in addition to those that are part of the GSC)
  • Overflow monitoring: Continuous online monitoring at 190 wastewater pump stations and 51 constructed overflow sites

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