For 72 days, but who is counting, residents of the New South Wales town of Tenterfield have been told to boil their drinking water. Straight from the tap it reeks of bushfire smoke and heavy doses of chlorine. The community’s filtration system, built in 1932, cannot cope effectively with turbidity levels in the Tenterfield dam that have recently been measured at 60 times the World Health Organisation’s limits. The town’s swimming pool has been closed indefinitely through weeks of extreme heat. “I don’t think anybody has any idea about how bad it really is here just in this locality,” says Helen Duroux, a Kamilaroi traditional owner and chief executive of the Moombahlene Local Aboriginal Land Council. “When you get to the stage where you can’t turn the tap on and get a drink of water out of it then something is severely wrong. “It is depressing. We’ve been through a whole range of catastrophes that have brought us to this place to where we can’t drink our water. I’m not the only one asking: where is it going to end, how is it going to end?” The Tenterfield shire council began advising residents to boil water in early October when… Read full this story
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