Douglas Shire Mayor Michael Kerr says Port Douglas had “approach an excessive amount of water” and now they “can’t get sufficient” because the filtration system is having a tough time filtering the “muck” within the water.
“Effectively, we … managed to get our water flowing by means of to Port Douglas, however we simply can’t get a trick proper in the mean time – we’ve gone from having approach an excessive amount of water to we simply can’t get sufficient water,” Mr Kerr informed Sky Information Australia.
“So, due to all of the landslides which have occurred all through the regional space, there’s lots of turbidity within the water and lots of muck that’s in there, and the filtration system’s having a extremely exhausting time getting sufficient water into Douglas for what we’d like for our residents.
“We’ve put an pressing alert out for a restriction 4 and asking residents to simply use what you could.”
Mr Hardgrave was joined by Douglas Shire Mayor Michael Kerr to debate Port Douglas being left with out water this Christmas.
