there were no issues<\/a> with the water and they had not issued notices about boiling water.\n<\/p>\n\n But in images seen by the Gazette, notices advising residents to boil water before consumption were sent by text message on March 31.\n<\/p>\n
\n Over the past week, dozens of people started claiming they started feeling ill after staying at the holiday park.\n<\/p>\n
\n Summer Kay said: “I came back and was vomiting – we were not prewarned about the issue before arriving.\n<\/p>\n
\n “On arrival we were handed a bottle of water and we were told not to drink the tap water unless it was boiled first.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The swimming pool was foggy too – we used the restaurant and takeaway services.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Amy Bulmer, who owns a caravan on the site, said: “I had no message from Haven and I drank so much of the water.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I have been so ill and really worried.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Brett Ford visited the site for a holiday and said he was told not to drink the water unless it was boiled.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “There was a note left on the door saying not to drink the water or use it in any way unless it was boiled.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They said a text would be sent the next day with an update but the text never came.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Anita Fitzgerald said: “I did try and boil the water but it just frothed out the kettle and stunk like fish. I’m glad we brought bottled water.”\n<\/p>\n
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Site – The Orchards Haven Holiday park (Image: James Dwan)\n<\/p>\n
\n A Haven Holidays spokesperson said the Orchards Holiday Village is now operating as normal.\n<\/p>\n
\n They said: “Safety of our guests and team are our first priority, so we regularly test the water on park for any problems.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Recently, this routine testing detected an issue, and whilst the levels were very low, working closely with the environmental health team, we advised people to boil water before drinking and supplied our guests with bottled water. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n “We\u2019re extremely sorry for the inconvenience that this caused and thank our guests and owners for their patience, however the safety of everyone on park has to come first.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orchards Holiday Park, at Point Clear, is a popular place for families to visit. But throughout the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-544409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}