Boil-water noticed lifted by Sutton & East Surrey Water

nej

As the title says... Sutton & East Surrey water have lifted the (badly publicised) boil notice, so you are free to use tap water again.

lil_me

Personally I would continue boiling it for a little while, still takes time to get through the pipes etc and the contamination in the pipes. A friend works for the waterboard and said if he was working near his home or in incidents like this he'd be making his wife boil/filter the water for at least a week before giving it to their children. Not trying to scare anyone but he's worked for the waterboard on repairs for many years and if he wouldn't use it, neither would I.

moanymoany

Does this affect Crawley? I had no idea of its existance!!!!

nej

lil_me wrote: »

Personally I would continue boiling it for a little while, still takes time to get through the pipes etc and the contamination in the pipes. A friend works for the waterboard and said if he was working near his home or in incidents like this he'd be making his wife boil/filter the water for at least a week before giving it to their children. Not trying to scare anyone but he's worked for the waterboard on repairs for many years and if he wouldn't use it, neither would I.

Good advice. I'm using up my bottled supply before going back to the taps.

I don't know why they didn't just tell us all to turn on taps for a few hours, surely that would've shifted it all?

Moanymoany - I think Crawley was well out of the affected area. It was very badly publicised though. Apparantly they had vans with loudhailers and distributed leaflets in the affected areas, but I saw nothing. Only by chance did I come across a small line on a Sky News website article, so I checked their (S&ES Waters) website.