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Lead contamination meeting: A lot of questions were answered

Lead contamination meeting: A lot of questions were answered © RNZ / Tess Brunton Residents in the coastal Otago towns where the water supply is contaminated with lead vented their frustrations at officials last night in a heated meeting. More than 500 residents of the towns packed into last night s three-hour meeting with Dunedin City Council and Southern DHB officials. Waikouaiti Coast Community Board chairman Alasdair Morrison, who chaired the meeting, says some of the hostility started to subside when questions were addressed. It was a very worthwhile meeting and it really cleared the air for a lot of people. People went home, not totally happy, because they re still grumpy about the situation, but at least they had a lot of information given to them, they had a lot of facts given to them, and a lot of their questions were answered.

Lead contamination 40 times acceptable level for Waikouaiti water sample

Dunedin City Council has revealed that one of its failed lead sample tests had in fact returned a level almost 40 times the acceptable limit. Water tankers for Waikouaiti and Karitane after high lead levels found in the water. Photo: RNZ / Tess Brunton Previously, it had said the test sample taken on 8 December last year was only four times the allowable level. One of the intermittent spikes in lead levels, a sample taken on 8 December 2020, was also incorrectly stated in one earlier radio interview to be four times the acceptable level of 10 micrograms/L, the council said in a statement. In fact, at 0.39mg/L, the sample is almost 40 times the acceptable level of 0.01mg/L.

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