Water cut off at Cape
Water Shortage
Water outages are impacting the top of Cape York, with urgent water restrictions applied across the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council over the weekend.
The council issued an urgent notice to residents across the region due to critically low water levels as a result of ongoing faults at the Jardine pumps.
The outages began from 6pm on Saturday, November 30, as a result of “extremely low water levels” and were impacting the communities of New Mapoon, Seisia, Injinoo and Umagico.
The water was off between 10 and 11pm at Bamaga that night, with the council and operator Veolia apologising for the “ongoing frustration” on Sunday in a social media post.
Water has been turned on across most parts of the region and supplies are being monitored.
A total ban has been enacted on sprinklers, hand held watering devices, washing vehicles and driveway wash downs.
Council also urged residents to fill all water bottles, take quick showers and report leaks quickly.
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