The council has assured residents the water is safe to drink.<\/p>\n
However, residents continue to be worried about bathing in it, let alone drinking it. <\/p>\n
The council has received 13 complaints since flushing took place.<\/p>\n
Among the concerned residents is Rajnil Prasad, who has lived in Huntly with his family for 17 years.<\/p>\n
Like other Huntly residents, his tap water regularly ran brown for a couple of years. <\/p>\n
Prasad had been buying six big 15-litre bottles of water every fortnight.<\/p>\n
He was hopeful the flushing would get rid of the issue, but for him the council\u2019s flushing programme with the no-des unit had not resolved anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes [the water\u2019s] clean and then sometimes it\u2019s just really brown.\u201d<\/p>\n
The brown water poured through the tap of Rajnil Prasad’s Huntly home. Photo \/ Rajnil Prasad <\/p>\n
The family boiled water for showers, which he said was also wasting gas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re paying so much for rates, and this is what we get … it\u2019s quite disappointing actually,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Fellow Huntly resident Nikita Lal had noticed brown water in her shower since moving to Huntly eight years ago. <\/p>\n
Initially, she paid for plumbing work, only to discover it was \u201can ongoing problem\u201d.<\/p>\n
Since the council\u2019s flushing programme concluded, Lal was still seeing brown water \u201con occasion, but not as frequently as before\u201d.<\/p>\n
The no-des unit (Neutral Output Discharge Elimination System). <\/p>\n
She also thought the water quality was \u201cbetter than before\u201d the flushing, but said it had been a \u201clong process\u201d for the council to fix the issue.<\/p>\n
Lal, too, continued to buy water from the supermarket.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter paying for water rates, we expected that we would receive the normal water every other person receives.\u201d<\/p>\n
A history of complaints<\/p>\n