Boiled water warning lifted for 26 suburbs after contamination scare
A quarter of the nearly 100 Melbourne suburbs cautioned to boil their water due to a contamination scare have been given the all clear.
Late on Saturday night Melbourne Water, South East Water and Yarra Valley Water in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services, lifted the Boiled Water Advisory Notice issued on Friday for the following suburbs:
Jacqui Agostinello and 4 year old Kobe from Boronia collecting clean drinking water from a water tanker set up by South East Water at Ferntree Gully on Saturday.Credit:Scott McNaughton
- Attwood
- Blackburn South
- Box Hill North
- Broadmeadows
- Burwood
- Campbellfield
- Coolaroo
- Craigieburn
- Dallas
- Doreen
- Greenvale
- Kalorama
- Meadow Heights
- Melbourne Airport
- Mernda
- Monbulk
- Mont Albert North
- Mount Dandenong
- Olinda
- Research
- Roxburgh Park
- Somerton
- South Morang
- Westmeadows
- Wollert
- Yarrambat
Customers whose suburb is not listed will need to continue to boil their water for drinking and food preparation for now, a Yarra Valley spokeswoman said.
Customers who can’t access boiled or bottled water can call Yarra Valley Water’s emergency hotline on 13 27 62 and South East Water’s customer line on 13 28 12.