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Work carried out on water main

Work was carried out to clean out trunk water mains in Ocean View Dr, Ettalong, on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning last week.

The main eventually feeds Mt Ettalong Reservoir, according to Gosford Council's water and sewer manager of operations Mr Stephen Martin.

Mr Martin said the work was successful.

"The trunk main is now clean and we received very few complaints about discoloured water on Wednesday and Thursday," Mr Martin said.

"We are planning to restart the air scouring program in the smaller reticulation mains in the western end of Woy Woy in July.

"We need to complete some capital works at our Blackwall, Mt Ettalong and Woy Woy Bay Reservoirs before we restart the program.

"We cleaned the eastern side of Woy Woy in May, and in April we completed work in Pearl Beach, Patonga and St Hubert's Island.

"We are planning to air scour all the water mains in the Peninsular area.

"We anticipate that this will take about nine months to complete.

"However, we are just finalising the contract for this work so we cannot give exact dates at this time."

Mr Martin said that the air scouring trials began in Woy Woy Bay in April last year, and the program was part of Gosford Council's commitment to improve water quality in the area.

"We are confident that, once the air scouring program has been completed, our Peninsular customers will notice a marked improvement in the quality of their water supply," Mr Martin said.

"We have also been making an number of improvements to the upstream end of the water supply system that will benefit our Peninsular customers.

"Aeration units were installed at Mangrove Creek Dam in 2004 and we have changed our treatment processes at the Somersby Water Treatment Plant to reduce the amount of iron and manganese, the main causes of discoloured water, in our treated water supply."



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