About 20 per cent of christchurch s water is currently chlorine free with most of the rest being treated with a low dose at 0 2 parts per million a fifth of the levels when it was first brought.
Chlorine free water christchurch.
14 september 2019 axel.
The city council was on track to provide the whole of christchurch with chlorine free water by the end of september following intensive efforts to upgrade wells in the wake of the 2016 havelock.
It might be frustrating for residents to know that the technical difference between well head safety of one neighbourhood who does have chlorinated water to one that is chlorine free.
Residents in christchurch could have pure chlorine free drinking water by the end of the year if the government approves a new plan to prove supplies are safe.
Sodium hypochlorite is used in christchurch.
6th may 2019 christchurch s drinking water could be chlorine free as soon as the end of july 2019.
The council will consider a report outlining options around continuing chlorine treatment of its water supply this week.
Safe chlorine free drinking water is a major priority for the council and for the people of christchurch.
The christchurch city council predicts drinking water will be free of chlorine by the end of the july.
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Christchurch s water was originally supposed to be chlorine free by may this year but that then turned into july and now the council doesn t expect the city to be chlorine free before the end of.
Seventy five per cent of the water supply is expected to be chlorine free by the end of this month which marks one year since chlorine treatment began to allow the upgrading of the city s 140.
According to the agenda for this thursday s council meeting all the city s drinking water.