Community with contaminated water hit with new scare

A LIMERICK community whose contaminated water supply has been subject to a “boil notice” for the past 16 months was hit with a new water scare yesterday following further contamination.

More than 250 households in the Ballingarry and Kilfinny areas have been unable to drink tap water since November 2005 after a number of local children were stricken with potentially fatal e-coli infections.

A new boil alert went out yesterday to hundreds of more households supplied from the adjoining Ballingarry (Upper) Group Scheme.