Ruapehu District Council's civil defence team has confirmed that with water restored to Ohakune and the system now stable, the response will move into recovery mode today.
Controller Vini Dutra said the restart of the Water Treatment Plant and restoration of the water supply had gone well, with no significant issues since supply returned on Tuesday evening.
"We have experienced a handful of leaks on the network as it was repressurised," Mr Dutra said.
“Repairing these will require isolated spot shutdowns to the affected parts of the network.
Council was scheduling this work to minimise disruption and will notify residents via Council's Facebook page, website and the Antenno app.”
Mr Dutra said the precautionary boil water notice remained in effect.
“Regulations require that we need three consecutive days of clear test results before the notice can be lifted.
Until then, people should continue boiling water for at least two minutes before drinking it or using it for food preparation.
The water tanker will continue to be made available outside Council’s office on Ayr St until the precautionary boil water notice is lifted,” he said.
All public toilets are expected to reopen today allowing the removal of the emergency port-a-loos.
Mr Dutra said the outage highlighted the importance of every household having an emergency plan and being prepared to manage without outside assistance for at least three days.
“There are excellent resources at getready.govt.nz, including easy-to-follow advice on preparing your home, workplace, school or marae for an emergency.
“Households should store at least three litres of water per person per day for drinking and basic hygiene.
We encourage people to keep and reuse the large plastic water containers distributed during the outage as a starting point for their household emergency supplies.”
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