Ten days without a drinkable water supply in Martinborough is frustrating food businesses and customers alike.
Bruce Sullivan of Kitcheners said some of his cafe customers had voiced their concerns when they heard the town’s supply was contaminated.
* Drinkable water in Martinborough likely to be a week away * Martinborough residents to boil drinking water until at least Monday as E.coli issue continues * Drinking water arrives in Martinborough for annual fair after town supply contaminated * Water restrictions hit cafes, hairdressers As soon as the boil water notice came into place on February 1 the cafe started using alternative water supplied by South Wairarapa District Council, but that brought its own problems.
Advertise with Stuff Sullivan said customers complained their coffees tasted of chlorine so the cafe started buying in bottled water.
Council infrastructure and services manager Mark Allingham said he understood cafe owners’ frustrations but he was sure they would rather the council fix the issue properly.
"We want to be able to instil confidence in the community that once it’s up and running it won’t happen again," he said.
The next step was to show the water was clear of E.coli at all testing sites for three consecutive days.
"It’s gone on for quite a while and we just hope the council is going to sort it out in a hurry."
"Once we have the all clear from council, all cafes will need to replace their water filters on their coffee machines as these will be fully contaminated."
"All going well, we’re hoping to have drinking water supply restored to Martinborough by next weekend," Napier said on Friday.

Houses are without water and a number of businesses have also been affected due to supply issues in Sherwood.
A team from Severn Trent are on site and are trying to investigate the cause of the supply issues.
They have told customers on Twitter that bottled water will not be supplied at this stage.
She said: "It didn’t cause too much disruption for us."
Other businesses, such as Haus of Sottung in Mansfield Road, have had to close.
Key Events “We’ve had a problem at one of our service reservoirs which our teams have quickly fixed, so everyone should now start to see their water coming back on.
We’re really sorry for the inconvenience, but we’re confident everything should be back to normal in the next couple of hours.” Haus of Sottung: ‘We have had to close’ Sid Sottung, who runs barber academies in Forest Fields and Sherwood, said he had to close Haus of Sottung on Mansfield Road.
One of my staff members called me and told me what was going on because staff from Pudding Pantry who are our next door neighbours told us about it.
This is affecting my students education.
“I understand things happen but as a business owner this is affecting my business.”

KALAMAZOO, MI — Residents in the city of Parchment and Cooper Township will be provided bottled water Friday morning after elevated levels of PFAS were found in Parchment’s water system.
The water should also not be given to pets.
PFAS found in Parchment drinking water at 20 times advisory level There are about 3,000 people on the city of Parchment water system, officials said.
"We fully recognize the seriousness of the situation and we recognize that people are going to have concerns," Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller said at a media event held Thursday night.
"I want to make sure everybody understands that we have a team in place that is very prepared to help the citizens," he said.
For further information, resident on the Parchment water supply system can call the Parchment water hotline at 269-567-7595 or 269-567-2517.
A short-term plan to return safe drinking water to the area will start within the next 24-48 hours/ The city of Parchment’s water supply system will be drained, according to a news release from the county’s Health and Community Services Department.
Officials plan to connect residents currently on the city of Parchment’s water supply to the city of Kalamazoo’s water supply system.
The city of Kalamazoo will flush Parchment’s water supply system until test results come back with PFAS levels below the health advisory level of 70 ppt.
Officials provided a map of the Parchment city water system, shown below.

(WPTA21) — The city of Butler was placed under a boil water advisory because of a water main break over the weekend.
Officials are asking Butler residents to boil all drinking and cooking water until further notice.
It is recommended that all cooking and drinking water be brought to a complete boil for five minutes before using.
The CDC said you can use the boiled water later if you let it cool and pour it into a clean container with a cover.
If you can’t boil your water, the CDC says to disinfect it instead.
Add 1/8 teaspoon (8 drops or about 0.75 milliliters) of unscented household liquid bleach to 1 gallon (16 cups) of water.
If your tap water is cloudy, the CDC says to filter the water using a clean cloth before using unscented bleach to disinfect it.
Add 1/4 teaspoon (16 drops or 1.5 milliliters) of unscented household liquid bleach to 1 gallon (16 cups) of water.
The CDC suggests giving them a sponge bath to reduce the chance of them swallowing water.
Soak the rinsed dishes in the water for at least one minute.

Students are being served bottled water while several government offices work with the school to treat its water for high levels of arsenic and fluoride.
Though a physician’s report supported students’ claims that rashes on their skin was linked to the water contamination, Margot Chappel, deputy administrator for regulatory and planning services for the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, said a state epidemiologist found that evidence of the link was inconclusive.
According to a December report from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the facility’s water, which comes from a well, had fluoride levels measuring 2.9 milligrams per liter, above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recommendation that drinking water not exceed 2.0 milligrams per liter of fluoride.
The school’s water supply contained 0.032 milligrams per liter of arsenic, three times above the EPA’s recommended 0.01 milligrams per liter, though that falls below the EPA’s former cutoff of 0.05 milligrams per liter.
Updated in 2001, the newest recommendation came after the agency found that the benefits of treating water to attain lower levels of arsenic, also found naturally in the soil, outweighed the costs of treatment, Gerrity said.
“It would be costly to achieve.” Under 0.05 milligrams per liter, the EPA does not anticipate that arsenic-contaminated water would cause short-term effects.
At its highest, the arsenic levels in the water sat at 0.104 milligrams per liter.
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ Division of Environmental Protection has been working with Northwest Academy since January 2017 to treat its water for contaminants, spokeswoman JoAnn Kittrell said in an emailed statement Monday.
The health department gave parents and guardians the opportunity to pull students from the school Thursday, Chappel said.
“I flew at 6 in the morning on Thursday from Reno to Las Vegas and drove out to the Amargosa Valley with the explicit purpose of looking to see if the place should be shut down,” Chappel said Monday.

* New $3.85m Renwick water plant in the pipeline * Social media helps turn taps off * Worries rise to the surface as meter proposal extended in Marlborough Renwick has faced water restrictions for years, with past advice encouraging odd-numbered houses to water their gardens on odd-numbered days, and even-numbered houses on even-numbered days.
His garden was also watered at night by hand to help offset evaporation, which occurred more during the day, he said.
Councillor Cynthia Brooks, who lived in Renwick, said she saved water by having short showers, avoiding baths, and "flushing the loo only when needed".
Long-time Renwick resident Lois Johnson agreed, saying a water restriction was "not a big surprise" considering Renwick’s history of water conservation.
Kersey said he was "conscious of the water issue" and restrained from turning on his sprinkler during the day, and instead opted to water the garden for 30 minutes at 9pm.
He said the council would have to reduce the volume of water being taken from wells if levels dipped to between 1000mm and 800mm.
"At present, the daily bore water level drops about 100mm a day, so towards the end of this week I expect we will have to reduce what we take from the bores," he said.
"When we reduce what we take from the bores, we need a corresponding reduction in peak demand.
"If people can reduce their water use now, we can avoid water restrictions later."
Construction on its new reservoir on the outskirts of town was set to kick off in the coming months, and would be followed by a new water treatment plant down the track.

A Wisconsin company that makes firefighting foam knew its toxic products were contaminating groundwater at least four years before notifying residents, according to state records.
The company was found to have some of the highest known concentrations of the chemicals in groundwater and soil in Wisconsin, according to the records.
In November 2017, Tyco, a Johnson Controls International unit, acknowledged that the chemicals had spread beyond its Marinette facility and suspended spraying foam products outdoors.
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State officials said Wisconsin law requires companies to immediately report pollution , but the company defended its actions by saying that little was known about PFAS at the time.
"In 2013, there was not the level of awareness and information as there is today associated with PFOS/PFOA," said Fraser Engerman, a spokesman for Johnson Controls International.
Tyco has also claimed that the company didn’t know about contamination beyond the property until 2016.
Doug Oitzinger, the city’s former mayor, dismissed Tyco’s explanation.
"This isn’t news to them," he said.
Janell and Duane Goldsmith have twice tested their well water and found chemical contamination above the federal health advisory threshold.

The group collecting the water, Hometown Projects SC, became involved after learning late last year about an array of drinking water complaints in Denmark.
The bottled water drive, going on all week at Segra Park, shows concerns about Denmark are spreading across South Carolina, organizers said Monday.
People like Leah Thomas said they are glad to help.
“I’m very aware of the situation they have going on down there in Denmark,’’ said Thomas, who dropped off three cases of water Monday.
The support should be broader.’’ Concerns in Denmark, a town of about 3,500 located an hour’s drive south of Columbia, center on discolored, smelly water, as well as the city’s decision to inject a slime-killing chemical — not federally approved — into the city’s water for 10 years without the public’s knowledge.
Lawsuits have been filed against the city this year over the quality of its drinking water.
The ingredients in Halosan can cause skin and eye irritation if the product is not administered properly.
At one point several years ago, town water operators were unfamiliar with the system being used to inject the chemical into the water, The State reported last year.
Jenni Byrne and Cedric Flemming, who are coordinating the bottled water drive in Columbia, said they plan to deliver to the water to Denmark early next month.
Anyone interested in dropping off bottled water for Denmark can do so at Segra Park from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday.

Ilion, N.Y – The water issue continues into its fourth day in the village of Ilion.
Hundreds of additional cases of water was brought into the village municipal building by the truck loads.
The village is still under a boil water advisory as crews continue to work on solving the problem.
"We’ve had no water for two days the police came around today and said the we should have water today but it wont be drinkable.
So we will still be having to get water," said Ilion resident Nancy Hart A steady pace of residents arrived at the municipal building to pick up their case of water.
"We have a cat and a dog, and they drink a lot of water, so we are giving them bottled water at this point.
A couple of solutions have been brought to the table to try and fix Ilion’s water problem.
The Mayor’s office searching for a long term fix.
"We’re looking for a long term solution and when I met with the governor the other day, we weren’t interested in 5 maybe 10 years.
Representatives from the Governor’s office say that fixing Ilion’s water problem is high on his list.

A large water main break has occurred on Elwyn Terrace.
Properties on South Main Street, Manheim, from Twin Kiss south to The Shack, as well as properties on Elwyn Terrace, Manheim are affected.
A boil water advisory is in effect.
Customers may not have water service during the repair.
When water is restored, customers are reminded to boil all drinking water and water for washing dishes if you do not use a dish washer, from now until Wednesday, February 6.
Allow the water to cool before using.
Showering is not hazardous, and the boil is specifically for consumption precaution.
To limit risk, customers should follow the above instructions.
This advisory is in effect from today, February 2, through Wednesday, February 6, and until the Authority, and other agencies where appropriate, can determine the work has not negatively affected your drinking water.
The Authority will follow testing regulations regarding site sampling, and estimate that the Boil Water Advisory will end, on Wednesday, February 6.