Queensland Drinking Water Incident Notification Record

Working records of a drinking water service provider's notifications to the drinking water regulator under Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008 (Qld) s 102 (notice of noncompliance with water quality criteria) and s 102A (notice of prescribed incident): the immediate notification and the follow-up notice in the approved form covering the noncompliance or incident, the circumstances, the action taken or to be taken, and the measures to prevent recurrence. Includes internal boil water notice decision and incident logs that carry the scheme, incident reference, notification times, parameter exceedances (E. coli, total coliforms, turbidity NTU, chlorine mg/L) and corrective actions. Distinct from au-water-quality-data-reference, which covers routine measured water quality data: this classifier needs the incident or notification structure. Public boil water notices, media releases and published DWQMP annual or water quality reports are decoys.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the s 102/102A notice titles and "prescribed incident" are statutory and distinctive, but boil water notice wording is widely published, so enforce tiers require populated incident-administration fields and a public-notice exclusion. Parameter values are unit-checked only. The approved form's own field headings were not available to the research, so field labels follow the s 102(3)/102A(3) content list (noncompliance or incident, circumstances, action taken, preventive measures) and common incident-log labels. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: health, infrastructure, environmental
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 7
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:notice\s+of\s+(?:non-?compliance\s+with\s+(?:the\s+)?water\s+quality\s+criteria|(?:a\s+)?prescribed\s+incident)|prescribed\s+incident|(?:drinking\s+)?water\s+quality\s+(?:incident|non-?compliance)|drinking\s+water\s+(?:incident|non-?compliance)|non-?compliance\s+with\s+the\s+water\s+quality\s+criteria|boil\s+water\s+(?:notice|advisory|alert)|do\s+not\s+(?:drink|consume)\s+(?:notice|advisory))\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

regulator, section 102, section 102A, water quality criteria, DWQMP, drinking water quality management plan, Queensland Health, public health unit, exceedance, detection

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Notice of noncompliance with water quality criteria - s 102 follow-up Scheme: Mount Carrow Drinking Water Scheme Incident number: DWI-2026-031 Date and time of detection: 14/09/2026 06:40 Time regulator notified: 14/09/2026 08:15 by phone Result: E. coli 3 MPN/100mL at Reservoir R2 outlet; free chlorine 0.1 mg/L Action taken: reservoir isolated, mains flushed and chlorine dosing increased; resampling at three reticulation points. Public health unit consulted before the boil water notice decision. — High tier (85) - scheme, incident and notification fields, E. coli and chlorine exceedance, actions and regulator context
Prescribed incident - Lakeside WTP filter failure Service provider: Testvale Regional Council Incident date: 03/09/2026 Turbidity 1.9 NTU on combined filtered water for 45 minutes. Circumstances: backwash valve stuck open after a power interruption at the plant. Notified to the drinking water regulator under section 102A. — High tier (85) - provider and incident fields, turbidity exceedance and circumstances with section 102A
Boil water advisory decision log Scheme name: Carrow Creek township supply Incident ref: BWA-26-004 Duty officer to confirm resampling results before lifting. — Medium tier (75) - populated scheme and incident reference, no results
Water quality incident - sampling point: Hilltop reservoir inlet RS-14. Awaiting lab confirmation. — Medium tier (75) - populated sampling point only
Can someone draft the water quality incident summary for the operations meeting? — Discovery tier (65) - primary phrase only

Should not match

102A Notice of prescribed incident (1) This section applies if a drinking water service provider becomes aware a prescribed incident has happened in relation to the provider or the provider's service. (2) The drinking water service provider must, unless the provider has a reasonable excuse, immediately inform the regulator of the prescribed incident. — Legislation text (65 only)
BOIL WATER NOTICE - Mount Carrow. Residents are advised to bring water to a rolling boil before drinking until further notice. Affected area: Mount Carrow, Carrow Heights. E. coli was detected at 3 MPN/100mL in routine testing. We apologise for the inconvenience. — Public boil water notice with an exceedance value (public-notice exclusion)
Drinking Water Quality Management Plan annual report 2025-26. Scheme: Carrow Creek. Water quality incident reported to the regulator on 12/02/2026: turbidity 1.2 NTU; action taken: filters backwashed and the boil water alert lifted after two clear results. — Published DWQMP annual report incident table (publication exclusion)
Notice of prescribed incident - blank template Scheme: ______ Incident number: [to be assigned] Date and time of detection: ______ Action taken: ______ — Blank approved-form template
Media release: the boil water alert for Lakeside has been lifted after testing confirmed the supply is safe to drink. — News and media release (65 only)

Known false positives

Public boil water notices and alerts on council websites, social media and letterbox drops, some of which quote the detection result. Mitigation: The public-notice exclusion suppresses rolling boil, residents are advised, until further notice and apology wording; public notices rarely carry incident references or regulator notification times, which the 75 tier needs.
Published Drinking Water Quality Management Plan annual reports and water quality reports that tabulate past incidents. Mitigation: Annual report and water quality report wording is excluded; routine measured results without incident structure belong to au-water-quality-data-reference.
The legislation, regulator guidelines and blank approved forms. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require populated fields; blank lines, square-bracket and angle-bracket placeholders are rejected.