Kay Richards thinks if people in Bathurst stop paying their rates the water quality in the city might start to improve.
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She said council is the first to complain if someone doesn’t pay their rates on time – yet complaining about the water quality doesn’t get ratepayers anywhere.
Last week, the tenant in her Larson Street home at West Bathurst went to bathe her 10-week-old baby, but saw the water was a filthy brown.
Ms Richards said obviously the tenant couldn’t put her baby into water like that.
“And council is saying it’s good enough to drink,” she said.
“I wouldn’t even let my dog drink that,” she said.
Ms Richards said as the property owner, she went to council and showed them a digital photo of the bathtub full of brown water. She was told council would flush the mains.
“It won’t make any difference,” she said.
“But I want to know why we should be paying water rates when we are buying bottled water.
“I would like to see them put their children in that, or drink it.
“It’s just not good enough.”
Ms Richards said her house was built in 1986 but it is only over the past couple of years that the water became really brown.
It has been particularly bad in the past three weeks or so.
“It was bad before, but not this black. It’s disgusting,” she said.
“You’d just like clean water – I don’t think that’s too much to ask,” Ms Richards said.