Water Services
Common Services - Water Services
Water supply, waste water, stormwater and service connections
Service connections are connections to the wastewater (sewer) network, the water network or the stormwater network.
The City Council provides a stormwater system that is designed to protect the citizens of Palmerston North and their properties from flooding to the standards required by the community.
Council provides a supply of safe fluoridated water that complies with the Drinking Water Standards of New Zealand to meet the various needs of water users in the city – residential, industrial, commercial and institutional.
The City Council provides a wastewater system to collect and treat all wastewater and permitted industrial wastes in a way that meets public health and effluent discharge standards.
Council are trying to minimise the occurrences of discoloured water. One of the strategies is to swab the truck mains from Turitea to the Square.