Rural Canterbury community gets clean water in time for Christmas

Nicole Mathewson Reporter from Northern Outlook

After having to boil their water for nearly a year, a rural community in North Canterbury finally has a new bore and clean water.

The Oxford Rural Number 1 water scheme – supplying homes around Thongcaster, Woodstock and Domain roads near Oxford – previously took water from the Waimakariri River. The district council put affected residents on a boil water notice after E coli was found in the water supply in January.

The water is now sourced from a 105 metre-deep well in McPhedrons Rd, which yields enough clean water to supply the current scheme and meet predicted growth over the next 50 years.

Resident Erica Willoughby says the community is thrilled to have their water back.

"It has been a long time of having to buy drinking water and using water collected from a rain water tank for showers, but now the water coming out of the tap is great."

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