Businesses in Ringarooma are waiting patiently for a clean water supply, after TasWater announced a plan to remove all permanent boil water alerts within two years.
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Ringarooma butcher Josh Webb said he’d been forced to throw out stock until TasWater supplied him with a rainwater tank in April, but he welcomed the organisation’s decision.
The town has been on a permanent boil water alert since 2012.
“It affected it pretty bad there (the boil water alert) for a while. Things weren’t lasting, like your sausages and silverside and your brines,” he said.
Post office owner David Shaw said the town had been forced to shower in dirty water for years, which was concerning for families.
In the North-East, Derby and Branxholm have also been affected.
