BOIL WATER NOTICE NASEBY LIFTED

Date:

13 Mar 2025, 4:42 pm

Category:

Customer Services

UPDATE - BOIL WATER NOTICE LIFTED - Naseby Thursday 13 March 2025, 4.30pm

The Council has had three days of clear testing, which means the Boil Water Notice can be lifted for Naseby. The water is now safe to drink straight from the tap again. Those with storage tanks should consider flushing them to enable clean water into their systems.

The team will be out tomorrow to remove the signage and tankers.

Thanks, and for the community's patience over the past few days.

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UPDATE - NASEBY 12 March 2025, 9.30am

A Boil Water Notice remains in place for the Naseby town supply because of a major leak that occurred Monday night, but the good news is that we are approaching our third day of the three-day testing period and hope to be able to lift the notice on Friday (14 March 2025) provided the test results come back clear.

Until the boil water notice is officially lifted remember to boil all water used for drinking, food preparation and cooking, and cleaning your teeth. Bring water to a rolling boil and boil for at least a minute, then allow it to cool naturally.

Drinking water tankers remain in place on Derwent Street and the corner of Larch Avenue and Swimming Dam Road. Please let your neighbours, family and friends know that you think may not see this online or via app and radio advisories.

Thanks for your patience.

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UPDATE - Tuesday night 11 March 2025

No change to the Boil Water Notice at this stage - still in place until further notice. Tankers for clean drinking water in place on Derwent Street.

Please boil ALL water used for drinking, food preparation and cooking, and cleaning your teeth until further notice. Bring water to a rolling boil and boil for at least a minute, then allow it to cool naturally.

Also boil ALL water used for:

-preparing baby formula

Boil water even if you have a water treatment device. They are designed to improve taste, odour or chemical quality of the water but will not remove harmful micro-organisms from tap water.

If you cannot boil your tap water:

-use bottled water

-treat tap water by adding 1 teaspoon of household bleach per 10 litres of water and leave for 30 minutes.

-Water purification tablets may also be used to disinfect tap water by following the manufacturer's instructions.

Please tell family, friends and neighbours.

For more info on boil water notices go to: Boil Water Notices - Central Otago District Council

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UPDATE - Tuesday morning 11 March 2025

Drinking water tankers are stationed on Derwent Street, Naseby, to help deal with the Boil Water Notice which has been in place since 9.30pm last night.

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It has come to our attention that there has been a sudden drop in pressure in the water system in Naseby most likely caused by a major leak, which has depleted the reservoir levels, therefore the town is on a Boil Water Notice until further notice.

We will go about finding the leak as soon as possible. If you have any information, or seen any unexplained leaks, please contact us on: (03) 440 0056 anytime or email the water team: water@codc.govt.nz. Sorry for the inconvenience and notification at this late hour. We will be assessing and providing an update as soon as possible on Tuesday.

Boil ALL water used for:

-drinking

-washing and preparing food