I would have expected a long delay between contaminated water at the entrance to the pipe system, and it actually coming out of our taps?
In fact, clearing the problem through some unused off-Broadway part of the network could be theoretically indefinite?
Anyway, I grew up on untreated roof water…never got sick from it…so I suspect the risk of serious illness it very very low…
Just got a text from Yarra Valley Water.
KEEP BOILING YOUR WATER.
“IF YOU HAVE NO POWER OR GAS AND CAN’T ACCESS BOILED OR BOTTLED WATER, CALL OUR EMERGENCY HOTLINE ON 13 27 62”
Yeah, avoiding the water was very easy for her.
It’s not THAT long a pipe system:
What else can Victoria fark up this year?
Why are you saying that? A freak storm caused an issue, happens in QLD almost every single year. NSW north coast regions get flooded almost every single year and has frequent massive storms. Selective viewing of this incident from other states is amusing. Even our bad water is better than Adelaide’s usual quality.
Obviously owning a kettle, a jug and a couple of empty of bottles is too farking difficult for most of the population.
Just went and did the groceries. Not a single bottle of water in the joint.
Edit: I got the YV Water “it’s still ongoing” sms update this morning too.
I actually don’t know anyone in Adelaide that doesn’t have either rainwater or a Puratap in Adelaide. No one drinks it straight out of the tap
Puratap owners must be loaded
I’m in the affected area and haven’t heard anything from Yarra Valley Water at all.
You’re special, Vinnie.
Well, we haven’t let you back in yet, so that’s a start.
Awww shucks 
Put that where the sun don’t shine, Digs.
It was the bloody storm’s fault!
And I don’t mean Melbourne Storm.
Wouldn’t think there’s that much storage in the pipes. Pipes that are really big are a waste of capital, flow so slow that sediment does flow to the low points where they can be scoured out.
Most houses will be pulling waster from the street inside of a single toilet flush. And while there’s a lot of pipe from there upstream to the chlorine dosing point, I would guess that’d clear pretty quick. But not a bad idea to allow a day after they say it’s fixed ( and I wonder if they are saying keep boiling for now even though it is fixed).
If you had let us run things over there you’d be pretty much back to normal.
Looking forward to a plague of locusts, we haven’t had one of those.
Without knowing the source, a strict testing of enterococcus and fecel Coliforms is crucial. I should also suggest full testing for recreational water bodys, and drinking water limitations. Chemical testing is paramount.
Councils are crucial, but usually bloody useless as the water corporations have probably taken over your infrastructure and give less direction than a newly naturalised legally blind taxi driver.
Then throw your most unpopular children to see if they float. If they do they are witches and probably cast the spell of contamination under the guise of being a duck.
Otherwise you all die from nasty illnesses of the ■■■■.
May the force be with you.
Water pipes are under pressure. Thats how they get it up to your house and three story walk ups without pumping. So they are always full. If they are not full they wouldnt have sufficient pressure to get uphill.
Yes I understand. Full pipes can be sized to flow at different speeds at peak flow. You don’t want too slow and you don’t want too fast. Too fast knocks of the bacterial slime (like the stuff on soap) that lines the inside of all water reticulation pipes. Our water doesn’t really contact the pipes…
New text from YVW:-
"Emergency drinking water is available at Griff Hunt Reserve, 54 Lyons Road Croydon North and The Football Ground, 70 Tramway Road, Mount Evelyn.
Customers will need to bring their own bottles, pots, kettles etc to fill up from the tankers."
There’s a touch of irony that the suburb Reservoir (3073) is listed and needs to boil water due to an issue at the Silvan dam.
Reservoir (3073) is named after the two large reservoirs on highest point on Plenty Road. The water comes from Yan Yean and feeds the lower northern suburbs (Preston, Thornbury etc) and the city.