Water Quality

Council provides safe and reliable drinking water to the propoerties located in the services areas of Aberdeen, Cassilis, Merriwa, Murrurundi and Scone.

The townships of Scone, Aberdeen and Murrurundi gets serviced by water from Glenbawn Dam and Hunter River Intake at Aberdeen, however, the water sources for Merriwa and Cassilis are from bores.

Our drinking water is regularly tested and analysed by independent NATA accredited laboratory to comply with the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (ADWG) 2011. Council closely work with NSW Health, DCCEEW and other stakeholders to make sure Council's water supply is safe to drink.

UHSC participated in the NSW Health arranged PFAS screening for the Water supplies and the results are provided below. Sometimes Council issues a notice to potable drinking water customers which is "Boil Water Alert" if the water supply is not suitable for drinking. This could happen due to a few reasons, poor raw water quality, failure of the treatment process or detection of contamination in the potable water supply system. In those instances, Council gets advice from NSW Health to make sure to protect all customers and follow all communication protocols to notify customers immediately.

The water priorities are reported monthly in Infrastructure Services Committee and Council reports as required. Some of the reports are attached below.