Residents in 26 Melbourne suburbs have been told they can now safely drink tap water after storms on Thursday sparked contamination concerns, but dozens more locations are still waiting to get the all clear.
Key points:
- About 200,000 residents have been boiling their water since the storms on Thursday
- Twenty-six suburbs have been given the all clear
- High winds are forecast to sweep across the state again today
Untreated water flowed into Yarra Valley Water and South East Water pipes after backup systems failed during a power outage at Silvan Dam, east of Melbourne.
About 200,000 residents in 101 Melbourne suburbs were told to bring water to a rolling boil before using it.
Authorities have been busy testing the water across the network and advised residents in the 26 suburbs late on Saturday evening their water was now safe.
Residents have been told to turn their taps on for two minutes to flush out old water.
But people in more than 70 suburbs are yet to be given the all clear.
AusNet is still working to restore power to thousands of homes after Thursday's deadly Victorian storm, but their efforts may be hampered by damaging winds forecast for much of the state today.
The storm claimed the lives of three people, including four-year-old Ayan Kapoor, who died in hospital after being hit by a falling tree.
Two other people, a 59-year-old Tecoma man and a 36-year-old woman from Parkdale, died after trees fell on their cars.
The wild weather left more than 100,000 people without power.
Over 7,000 customers of AusNet are still without power in Melbourne's outer east.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has issued a severe weather warning for today, with damaging winds expected to again sweep parts of the state.
Winds of up to 100 kilometres per hour are forecast to develop in the Alpine areas in the east, the Grampians and parts of the south-west coast this morning.
The damaging winds are then expected to extend across the central district and then into south-west Gippsland by early afternoon.
"This may impact on our ability to safely restore power to those still offline following Thursday night's extreme weather," AusNet said.
"We will keep working as hard as we can over the weekend but we have to keep our customers and crews safe."
The Victorian State Emergency Service (SES) warned loose branches that may have been dislodged on Thursday may come down with further strong winds.
A spokesperson said wet ground with weakened trees "only increases the risk".
Suburbs where water is safe to drink:
- Attwood
- Blackburn South
- Box Hill North
- Broadmeadows
- Burwood
- Campbellfield
- Coolaroo
- Craigieburn
- Dallas
- Doreen
- Greenvale
- Kalorama
- Meadow Heights
- Melbourne Airport
- Mernda
- Monbulk
- Mont Albert North
- Mount Dandenong
- Olinda
- Research
- Roxburgh Park
- Somerton
- South Morang
- West Meadows
- Wollert
- Yarrambat
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