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Pipeline shutdown prompts call for water conservation

Thursday 19 April 2012, 11:56AM

By Invercargill City Council

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BLUFF

Urgent repairs to a pipe-bridge that carries the Bluff water supply mean that the water pipeline to Bluff will be turned off from 7am tomorrow morning (Friday 20 April).

Invercargill City Council Water Manager Alister Murray said that Bluff residents would notice no difference to their water supply because the township’s reservoir had sufficient storage to maintain supply during the pipeline shut down.

However, Council was asking Bluff residents and businesses to conserve their water use over the weekend to enable reservoir storage levels to recover.

Mr Murray said that industry serviced by the pipeline – including the meat and milk plants at Awarua, and Ballance Fertiliser - would receive no supply during the shutdown.  These companies had already been advised and had made plans accordingly.

It was expected that supply would be resumed along the pipeline by 5pm Friday, he said.