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South East Water Lifts Tunbridge Wells Boil Water Notice
South East Water ended the boil notice after fixing treatment issues at Pembury, affecting 24,000 properties; customers will be compensated for the disruption, the company said.
- On Friday, South East Water lifted its boil water notice for about 24,000 homes and businesses in and around Tunbridge Wells after changing treatment processes, flushing the network and taking samples.
- At Pembury Water Treatment Works, SEW said a disinfection problem arose after the natural make-up of wells and springs around Pembury changed suddenly, causing the final supply to miss strict regulatory standards despite bacteria sampling results showing no contamination.
- From 30 November until 4 December, properties faced water loss, prompting bottled water collection and boiling, before SEW restarted Pembury on December 3, and KCC stood down its incident response.
- SEW said affected customers will receive compensation, apologised and promised a full review, while the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and public water regulator will scrutinise its actions next year.
- Kent County Council's leader Linden Kemkaran said the six-day outage disrupted schools and care homes in Tunbridge Wells and local businesses, vowing to press for fair compensation and a full probe into recent failures.
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