Council performs routine drinking water sampling and testing to monitor the quality of drinking water. Samples are sent to NSW Health Pathology laboratories for analysis with results being submitted to the NSW Drinking Water Database.
Compliance is determined against the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (2011) (ADWG) guideline values for E. coli, physical and chemical characteristics of drinking water.
The report provides a high level summary and detailed results for all of Council's six water supply treatment and reticulation systems.
The results show the individual characteristics tested, the number of samples undertaken, the mean and maximum value of all the samples for each characteristic and the level of compliance.
The 2024 report also includes recent samples for Per- and Poly-Fluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS). The results for all PFAS samples for Council’s water supplies were recorded at the lower limit of detection. These results cannot be shown as “not detected”, however less than or equal to the limit of detection means the characteristic could not be given a specific result or number and may or may not be present below the number recorded.
SVC-Drinking-Water-Quality-Monitoring-Report-2024(PDF, 541KB)