{"id":471760,"date":"2026-06-11T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/471760\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:06:09","slug":"waiouru-residents-warned-not-to-drink-tap-water-after-chemical-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/471760\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiouru residents warned not to drink tap water after chemical contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Zealand Defence Force later confirmed the chemical detected was aluminium, with a routine sample taken from the water treatment plant yesterday returning a concentration of 4.058mg\/L.<\/p>\n

The amount is more than four times the maximum allowable value of 1mg\/L under New Zealand\u2019s Drinking Water Standards.<\/p>\n

The contamination appears to have been caused by a power outage on June 9 and 10, which affected the treatment plant controls for dosing of the treatment additive polyaluminium chloride, the NZDF said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now flushing the plant and sending samples to the lab. We will advise when water quality has returned to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruapehu District Council and the NZDF have purchased supplies of bottled water, with five-litre containers being delivered to the Waiouru military base.<\/p>\n

Tankers are also set up at the Waiouru Z station and the primary school to distribute drinking water.<\/p>\n

Those with health concerns are advised to contact their doctors or Healthline on 0800 611 116.<\/p>\n

The notice will remain in place until further notice.<\/p>\n

More information is available on the Ruapehu District Council Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealand Defence Force later confirmed the chemical detected was aluminium, with a routine sample taken from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21045,74,3338,1558,31515,40176,77,36979,71,305,25449,3932,111,43,139,5006,69,530,19862,73393,150326,165,61,165813,8222,376],"class_list":["post-471760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-above","tag-after","tag-aluminium","tag-been","tag-chemical","tag-contamination","tag-detected","tag-drink","tag-from","tag-have","tag-level","tag-maximum","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-not","tag-nz","tag-residents","tag-supply","tag-tap","tag-taps","tag-their","tag-to","tag-waiouru","tag-warned","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}