Water/Wastewater
Investigation launched into Scottish water quality breach
May 03 2011
The Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland has been called in to find out why water tested at Burncrooks treatment works was found to contain excessive levels of aluminium, the Bearsden Herald reports.
Residents in Bearsden and Milngavie were ordered to turn their taps off for a 24-hour period following the discovery and Scottish Water has been criticised for not supplying adequate information to the 12,000 households that were affected by the breach.
Councillors and water suppliers are keen for the investigation to provide definitive answers so that a repeat of the incident can be avoided in the future.
Milngavie councillor Eric Gotts told the publication: "The aluminium incident at the Burncrooks Reservoir, which supplies many households in the Bearsden and Milngavie area, was quite rightly a matter of local concern."
Last month, the Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland announced an international conference on microbiology in drinking water would be held in Edinburgh in June 2011.
Posted by Joseph Hutton
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