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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 4 Hansard (25 June) . . Page.. 1130 ..

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(3) There was daily testing of inlet and outlet water from both Googong and Stromlo Water Treatment Plants.

No viable cryptosporidium was detected. All testing was performed by a NATA accredited laboratory registered for testing of cryptosporidium.

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(a) No testing was undertaken by ACTEW at the outlet tap of any of the affected pools.

(b) ACTEW tested city service reservoirs outlets which supplied water to Tuggeranong (4 February 1998) and Erindale (13 February 1998) swimming pools. No cryptosporidium was detected.

(5) There were no repairs or other work to cause negative pressures in the water supply mains in the vicinity of either Tuggeranong or Erindale pools in the period immediately prior to the outbreak.

(6) There was no water diverted from other areas where negative pressure may have occurred.

(7) ACTEW operates its Water Quality and Supply System under a NATA Certified ISO 9002 Quality System and ISO 14001 Environment Management System. Under these systems there is an emergency procedure in place for drinking water contamination.

The emergency procedure covers appraisal and response for potential water supply contamination events including testing and/or targeted information exchange, updates and commands with ACT Health.

ACTEW first attained NATA certification for the Quality System in 1994 and the Environment Management System in 1997.

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