Fingal water gets the thumbs up

TasWater is pleased to advise Fingal residents that the water being supplied from the town’s new water treatment plant now meets Australian Drinking Water Guidelines and no longer has to be boiled before being consumed.

TasWater CEO Michael Brewster says for the first time in many years residents of Fingal will be able to drink water drawn directly from their household taps.

“The new water treatment plant, built at a cost of almost $4 million, has been supplying treated water for several months however in line with both national and Tasmanian drinking water guidelines, the water supplied through any new treatment plant has to undergo thorough and prolonged testing to ensure it is safe to drink.”

“It is only after this process that the Department of Health and Human Services approves the lifting of a boil water alert and in Fingal’s case, this has now been done.

“I would like to thank all our customers in Fingal for their patience during the period of the boil water alert and say how pleased we are that residents now have a safe and reliable drinking water supply.

“The lifting of this boil water alert represents another big step towards achieving TasWater’s aim of removing Boil Water Alerts and Do Not Consume Notices across Tasmania,” Mr Brewster said.

Over the next three years TasWater plans to spend more than $300 million upgrading the state’s water and sewerage infrastructure.

Part of this expenditure will bring more benefits to the Fingal Valley with work about to start on a new 29 kilometre pipeline from the Fingal treatment plant to Avoca.

The Fingal-Avoca pipeline project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2017 and will pave the way for the lifting of Avoca’s Do Not Consume Notice.

TasWater will notify all of its Fingal customers in writing of the DHHS decision to lift Fingal’s boil water alert.
Simon Pilkington, TasWater