Chlorine Free Water Christchurch

About 20 per cent of christchurch s water is currently chlorine free with most of the rest being treated with a low dose at 0 2 parts per million a fifth of the levels when it was first brought.

Chlorine free water christchurch. 6th may 2019 christchurch s drinking water could be chlorine free as soon as the end of july 2019. The christchurch city council predicts drinking water will be free of chlorine by the end of the july. The council will consider a report outlining options around continuing chlorine treatment of its water supply this week. According to the agenda for this thursday s council meeting all the city s drinking water.

14 september 2019 axel. Residents in christchurch could have pure chlorine free drinking water by the end of the year if the government approves a new plan to prove supplies are safe. The council has resolved that long term it wants to retain the city s untreated water supply system and will seek an exemption from any government moves to impose mandatory residual chlorination. Sodium hypochlorite is used in christchurch.

Safe chlorine free drinking water is a major priority for the council and for the people of christchurch. Seventy five per cent of the water supply is expected to be chlorine free by the end of this month which marks one year since chlorine treatment began to allow the upgrading of the city s 140. It might be frustrating for residents to know that the technical difference between well head safety of one neighbourhood who does have chlorinated water to one that is chlorine free. Christchurch city council newsline.

Water pumping stations that have recently been repaired are as safe as those that were repaired earlier.