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NMBM’s Water is Safe Again – Grasrridge has been spanked

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After a week of back and forth around the water quality the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro said that it would announce on Friday at 10:00 am and then moved the announcement time forward to 12:00 Midday as to whether the Metro’s water is safe to drink or not.

As luck would have it the media were only officially notified today that he water is safe to drink (Thanks to the MyGqeberha.com editor posing the question on the media group I might add!).

In amplification of the assurance that our water is once again safe to drink the NMB Executive Mayor, Eugene Johnson clarified the position by saying:

“The dam levels being very low as a result of drought and is contributing to water shortage, water quality deterioration as a result of intermittent supply and operational risks. Over the past weeks, there have been water quality failures reported mostly in relation to colour and turbidity. This then escalated when bacteriological failures were identified on some samples in the week of 14 -19 February 2022. An analysis of the cause was undertaken by trouble-shooting the metro distribution system and the source of the problem was identified as the Grassridge treatment works. The metro confirms that the water quality failure was due to operations at the Grassridge reservoir temporary water treatment works and as from the 21st of February 2022 the municipality has been hard at work to ensure that the good quality of water is restored. Various interventions including sampling and monitoring were performed and on Saturday 26 February, all the 38 sampling points that previously failed were declared compliant. This means that the water is safe to drink.”

So, have you gone back to the tap?

Listen to the podcast below in which the Acting ED promises to report back by 10:00 am on Friday 25 February 2022:

NMBM Water Safe To Drink
NMBM Water Safe To Drink

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