A REPORT from the Environmental Protection Agency on the Nenagh water supply crisis is expected to be ready by early next week.
Mid Western Health Board officials and Tipperary North Riding County Council officers, who met yesterday to discuss the problem, are to review the recommendations of the EPA report when it becomes available.
Dr Tessa Greally, health board specialist in public health medicine, said yesterday that they had checked with local GPs and Nenagh Hospital and there was no reason for concern.
"There is no change in infectious diseases reports," she said.
Dr Greally advised parents of young children on formula milk to use tanker water rather than bottled water, which can have a high sodium content.
More than 5,500 people have been without drinking water for the past three weeks.
The water supply is contaminated and the main Nenagh supply at Gortlandroe had to be abandoned.
The council, after drilling operations, has found water at three out of four locations and that water is being analysed. It will take three to four weeks after the analysis has been completed to sink a well and pump it into the main water supply.
Townspeople are being supplied with water from bulk tankers. Nenagh General Hospital and Nenagh Co operative Creamery are not affected as they have their own private supplies.
Meanwhile, tests by the Western Health Board have shown that tap water in Roundstone, Co Galway, is now fit to drink, according to a senior engineer with Galway County Council, Mr Michael Dolly.
Residents in the Connemara village expressed relief at the news, which followed a week of uncertainty and emergency supplies brought in by tanker. Last week, the council warned the residents not to drink the water, because of contamination.
Mr Dolly said the health board informed the council yesterday that three successive tests on different days had shown the water was safe. The source of the contamination had not yet been established, he added.