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Fire service leakages - the system is broken

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Category: Yarra Valley Water

Published: 19 April 2019

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• EPA
• Water main leak
• Yarra Valley Water

How could it take over 3 months to fix a water leak into Merri Creek that is wasting around 5 million litres of water each month?  The system is broken that's how.

I reported this discharge to the EPA in mid January, who passed it onto Yarra Valley Water who found it was a leaking fire service (a tapping into the main to run sprinklers etc) and therefore was the property owner's responsibility to fix, even though the leak was under a main road.  Three and a half months after my report the leak was finally fixed.  17 million litres of water down the drain, which will be replaced by desalinated water.