When the Health Department was notified (as per the law) by a NATA certified lab that a Ben Lomond Water drinking water sample had failed a test for E-coli (by 56 times), why did they go to ground instead of issuing an immediate interim health alert when they knew the readings?
I believe at that point they failed in their duty of care by not advising the general public to boil their water. How many times does this happen?
When I contacted Environmental Health about the failed readings Drs. Chrissie Pickin and Roscoe Taylor would not speak to me or return my call. I still haven’t heard from either of them.
As a result of DHHS claming up I felt I had no choice but to approach the media to warn people of the exceptionally high readings. This is our health up north, but these people sit in an office down south.
Instead, Chrissie Pickin chose to use the same media article (Examiner 7/1) to claim, “…she believed Mr. Stott’s sample had not followed the necessary standard to determine whether contaminants were present.” How could she possibly know? I believe they did.
She was also quoted as saying, “Mr Stott was advised that because the required testing standards were not met, the results could not be relied upon.”
Dr Pickin needs now to release her reasons for making such a statement and to say which parts of the required testing standards were not met by me.
Then in the paper (Examiner 8/1) Ben Lomond Water chief, Barry Cash, gave the “all clear.”
In actual fact an ‘all clear’ has not been received because I was told yesterday by Environmental Health, after they received the Ben Lomond test results, to keep boiling my water.
If my place is still contaminated then others most likely would be as well.
I believe residents have a right to be concerned. Ben Lomond water does not just supply Grindelwald.
I intend to continue to boil our water and drink bottled water until I get certified test results returned which comply with the Guidelines.
Download: water_analysis_4.1_.11_.pdf
