UPDATED 3.25PM: Tauranga City Council have backtracked on giving Pilot Bay the all clear after one of the five samples taken at Pilot Bay came back with high levels of bacteria.
The rest of the samples came back clear.
Warning signs will be put up again as a precaution, and additional water quality samples will be taken to check bacteria levels in the water.
Until the new results are in, people are urged to stay out of the water at Pilot Bay.
The warning signs will be removed from the beach once the tests confirm the water poses no health risk.
EARLIER:
Pilot Bay has been reopened to swimmers after water quality tests returned ‘all clear'.
Tauranga City Council says health warning signs will be removed as soon as possible.
On Saturday, people were warned to stay out of the water in Pilot Bay, due to a wastewater overflow that afternoon.
Warning signs were put up on the stretch of beach where the water was polluted.
The cause of the overflow was a pipe blockage caused by build-up of wet wipes.
2 comments
Donald Trump
Posted on 16-01-2018 15:33 | By maildrop
He'll be referring to NZ as a ****hole soon.
Stink
Posted on 16-01-2018 19:20 | By peecee09
Not good enough TCC, if wet wipes are a real problem then you along with other local authorities should partition parliament to ban this product as it obviously has the very real potential to create a genuine health danger, not just here but all over NZ.
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