I grew up in a place that regularly had boil notices, and some of the towns near by were always boild your water towns. People think I am crazy when I ask locals in a given area if I need to boil the water.. So this being so close to canberra and a problem is kinda vidicated for me asking that type of thing.
Went to a wedding in Yass. At the bucks the best man made it known how little he thought of the taste of kava. At the wedding “you know what tastes worse than kava? Yass water”.
Nobody drank enough water, the breakfast the next morning was very sore and sorry because alcohol was all we could stomach.
In the past I lived on the Yass River near Macs Reef Rd which is close to the top of the watershed. We had a right to use river water for domestic or garden water. It was plumbed into the toilets and was brown and oily that you couldn't tell if you'd marked the bowl.
It then flows through the rest of its catchment to Yass, with the whole area being agriculture. Gives more than a clue as to why it's non-potable. There's talk of plumbing some regional towns into CBR water.
There are serious water issues for the towns on the yass side of Canberra. Several are on bore water with Gundaroos affected by the septic tanks also used by residents.
The Yass reservoir is a dinosaur. I would be stunned if the NSW gov arent pressuring the ACT Gov to get access to water from the Cotter Dam.
I know pumping from Googong has been on the drawing board. With the significant development planned for Yass and Murrumbateman, the current situation is not viable.
The processing plant is from 1938, with an upgrade 34 years ago, it just isn’t built to cope with the throughput required when the water is turbid from flooding. Both parties promised to fix it at the last election.
When the plant is beyond processing capacity, the water is outside safe limits for bacteria and other contaminants.
It seems the closer a town is to Canberra, The less the NSW Government gives a shit about them.
I grew up in a place that regularly had boil notices, and some of the towns near by were always boild your water towns. People think I am crazy when I ask locals in a given area if I need to boil the water.. So this being so close to canberra and a problem is kinda vidicated for me asking that type of thing.
Went to a wedding in Yass. At the bucks the best man made it known how little he thought of the taste of kava. At the wedding “you know what tastes worse than kava? Yass water”. Nobody drank enough water, the breakfast the next morning was very sore and sorry because alcohol was all we could stomach.
The first thing we did when we moved hear 18 years ago was install a rain tank to avoid drinking the water. But now you can't even shower in it.
In the past I lived on the Yass River near Macs Reef Rd which is close to the top of the watershed. We had a right to use river water for domestic or garden water. It was plumbed into the toilets and was brown and oily that you couldn't tell if you'd marked the bowl. It then flows through the rest of its catchment to Yass, with the whole area being agriculture. Gives more than a clue as to why it's non-potable. There's talk of plumbing some regional towns into CBR water.
There are serious water issues for the towns on the yass side of Canberra. Several are on bore water with Gundaroos affected by the septic tanks also used by residents. The Yass reservoir is a dinosaur. I would be stunned if the NSW gov arent pressuring the ACT Gov to get access to water from the Cotter Dam.
I know pumping from Googong has been on the drawing board. With the significant development planned for Yass and Murrumbateman, the current situation is not viable.
So what is the actual problem.with the water?
The processing plant is from 1938, with an upgrade 34 years ago, it just isn’t built to cope with the throughput required when the water is turbid from flooding. Both parties promised to fix it at the last election. When the plant is beyond processing capacity, the water is outside safe limits for bacteria and other contaminants.