Toowoomba City Council water samples not tested ...

... monitoring failures occured during 2005/06.

They said it would never happen. Under Water Futures, the Council's testing regime would ensure that the water was perfectly safe to drink.

Others raised the question of human error.

They said - 'won't happen'.

Seems it did.

Somewhat buried at the bottom of page 92 of the Council's latest Committee meeting agenda is the following admission:

Recommendations:

"Laboratory Services branch investigate and implement corrective action to prevent the reoccurrence of incidents during 2005/06 where samples were collected as required under the monitoring program but not analysed for the full range of required analytes."

See - Council Committee meeting agenda - 21/22 November 2006.

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