Drinking water company PWN advises more than fifty households in Zwanenburg to boil tap water for three minutes before drinking it. It concerns a preventive warning, which is taken because a contaminated sample has returned from the lab.
This is what spokesperson Lilly Wanjon tells NH. Earlier today, a folder was delivered to a total of 52 addresses with the urgent advice to ‘boil the water from the tap for at least three minutes before consumption as a precaution’.
These are addresses on the Amestelle and the Seevank. Near the allotments, a leak in the water mains that arose last Wednesday during storm Poly is currently being closed. In charge was heavily damaged when a tree on the Amestelle fell and dragged the pipe with it.
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Wherever water pipes are being worked on, PWN takes samples to check the quality of the drinking water. Samples have also been taken from households on the Amestelle in recent weeks. At least one of those samples turned out to be contaminated. “It could be a bacteria, for example,” says Wanjon.
Because it concerns a ‘large pipeline with many branches’, households in Zwanenburg, but also in Halfweg and Vijfhuizen, suffered after the storm with low water pressure. The leak has now been closed, but another problem has come to light.
A resident of the Amestelle writes on Facebook that PWN opened a fire hydrant in her street today ‘to drain the water’.
The advice to boil the drinking water before drinking it applies in any case until tomorrow afternoon (Monday afternoon). Because the drinking water company is currently having more samples tested, it will be able to say tomorrow whether the contaminated sample is an incident or whether there is more to it. “Then the cooking advice will apply longer.”
The advice only applies to water for consumption. Water for washing vegetables, doing the dishes or for showering, for example, does not have to be boiled first.