Management of Stage 1 of Havelock North Drinking Water Outbreak

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This presentation discusses the management of Stage 1 of the Havelock North drinking water outbreak in August 2016, including the causes, leadership issues, processes, and organizational culture. It explores the failures of the Regional Council and the District Council in ensuring safe drinking water and the resulting health complications. The presentation also highlights the lack of collaboration and learning from a previous outbreak in 1998.

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Management of Stage
1 of Havelock North
Drinking Water
Outbreak
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Introduction of the Outbreak
Safe Drinking water is very important for the health of human
beings
The outbreak of the gastroenteritis in Havelock North took place on
August 2016 (Moore et al., 2017)
It shook the confidence of the public in fundamental service
About 14000 residents and more than 5000 towns became ill with
the campylobacteriosis; 45 people were hospitalised
Stage 1 address the causes in relation to the 2016 outbreak
The outbreak resulted in three deaths and health complications
among huge number of public.
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Possible Causes
Protozoa Risk
Poor Working Relationships
High Transgression History
Aquifer Not Confined
1998 Outbreak
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Causes of the Outbreak-
Systems
The main source of campylobacter was the contaminated drinking water, which
caused “gastrointestinal illness campylobacteriosis” among the residents of
Havelock North.
Heavy rain overloaded the paddocks in the neighboring Brookvale Road caused
the polluted water to flow into the pond present within 90 meters from
Brookvale Road bore 1 (Little, 2016)
The Regional Council imposed a generic condition on the water related to the
safe and serviceable state of the Brookvale Road bores. It failed to meet the
required standard and adequately monitoring the compliance with the
conditions of permits

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Causes of the Outbreak-
Leadership
The Regional Council failed in meeting its responsibilities, as it was set out in
Resource Management Act 1991 (“RMA”).
The Regional Council inflicted some generic condition on the water in-take
permits that it granted to the District Council in relation to safe and serviceable
state of Brookvale Road bores. It failed in meeting the required standard and
monitoring the compliance with conditions of permits.
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The mid-level managers assigned the tasks but did not effectively
supervised and ensured their implementation in proper manner. It
resulted in unacceptable delays in preparation of Water Safety Plan
(Hales, 2019).
It was found that the Regional Council and the District Council did
not work effectively together
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Causes of the Outbreak-
Processes
The District Council did not implement high standard of care that
was required of public drinking-water supplier, especially in the light
of the experience of similar outbreak in 1998.
The Regional Council failed to meet its responsibilities, as set out
in the Resource Management Act 1991 (“RMA”), to act as guardian
of the aquifers under the Heretaunga Plains. Protection of the water
source, in this case the aquifer, was the first and a critical step in the
multi-barrier approach to ensuring safe drinking water
There was lack in Contingency planning by the District Council.

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Causes of the Outbreak-
Organisational Culture
The DWAs were hands-off in applying the standards of Drinking-
water (Hawkins, 2016).
It failed to press the District Council regarding the shortage of risk
assessment, the analysis of key risks of aquifer catchment, including
the relation in between Brookvale Road bores and in nearby ponds.
There was lack of collaboration and liaison among the Regional
Council and the District Council. This resulted in many missed
opportunities which might have prevented the then outbreak.
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Also, it appears that nothing was learned by the outbreak of 1998.
Water Supplier and the District Council did not take the outbreak
of 1998 seriously and have not implement systematic and enduring
changes.
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References:
Hawkins, M. (2016). Local Government Mediation-The Ugly Duckling of RMA
Resolution. NZJ Envtl. L., 20, 239.
Hales, S. (2019). Climate change, extreme rainfall events, drinking water and
enteric disease. Reviews on environmental health, 34(1), 1-3.
Little, Y. (2016). Coping with the outbreak of campylobacter. Kai Tiaki: Nursing
New Zealand, 22(10), 25.
Moore, D., Drew, R., Davies, P., & Rippon, R. (2017). The Economic Costs of the
Havelock North August 2016 Waterborne Disease Outbreak. Sapere Research
Group Limited.

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