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A large-scale preventive boil water advisory in Hull has been lifted. Analyses and tests confirm that the water is safe to consume.

In a media release, the city of Gatineau advises that cold water taps should be left running for one minute or until the water gets cold before it is used (the same procedure should be followed with water fountains); and any ice made from tap water during the preventive boil water advisory should be discarded.

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The preventive advisory period began Saturday, as a new phase begins in large-scale upgrade of the city’s water system.

The Hull water treatment plant is in the middle of a $68-million project aimed at upgrading the aging facility. Crews are working to upgrade filtration technologies, pumping systems and increase the amount of water it is able to process. Officials expect work, which has been underway since the spring of 2017, to be completed by the summer of 2019.

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