Downlands boil water notice has been lifted

The day has finally come where the final testing of the Downlands scheme on the Waitohi/Kakahu side of the Opihi River has been completed and the boil water notice can be lifted.

A soft open of the new pipeline in the Opihi has been going on for a while and with multiple rounds of testing, and today, Council have been given the all go to lift the boil water notice.

The water that was supplied to the Waitohi residents before it was connected to the new Te Ana Wai water treatment plant recently did not comply with the new water standards. During the final stages of building the plant we had an unexpected pipe failure in an ecologically sensitive area, which meant we were unable to connect Waitohi residents to the new treatment plant until we could repair the pipe.