"A regulation 18 notice which specifies that the water requires boiling before drinking has been in place permanently since December 2017 and indeed residents report to me finding tadpoles and other life in their drinking water." Raising their plight in the Commons he said: "Over the last decade, Redcar and Cleveland council performed drinking water checks nine times and on all occasions supplies have been judged unsatisfactory owing to bacterial contamination including E.coli and enterococci. However Northumbrian Water has advised it will cost £100 each just for a quote for connecting them to their safer mains supply - and that is not affordable for the "low income homes". He said people in Aysdalegate - an outlying village about a mile outside the market town of Guisborough - have to boil their water before drinking it due to the risk of contamination such as E.coli. Residents in a rural Yorkshire village have found tadpoles in their drinking water in a situation branded a "Dickensian scandal" by the local Conservative MP.įormer cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke said nine homes in his Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency are stuck without a connection to the mains water supply because of the prohibitive costs of even getting a quote for the works. We'll be bringing you updates on the situation throughout the day.
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