Residents in 250,000 Melbourne homes are warned not to drink their tap water over contamination fears - after killer storms wreaked havoc with system
Tap water has become contaminated at 250,000 Melbourne homes and could make residents sick if they drink it.
Yarra Valley Water issued a warning on Friday to 88 suburbs including Attwood, Templestow and Fawkner.
Residents could experience gastro-like symptoms if they drink the water or use it to prepare food without boiling it first.
The warning comes after non-disinfected water left Silvan Dam and entered the water system after a night of wild storms across Victoria.
Tap water has become contaminated at 250,000 Melbourne homes and could make residents sick if they drink it following a night of wild weather (pictured, wreckage at a Melbourne home following killer storms on Thursday)
Undisinfected water is understood to have left Silvan Dam and entered the water system after a night of wild storms across Victoria (pictured, a fallen tree following the storm on Thursday night)
Three people, including a four-year-old boy, were killed after strong wind gusts brought down trees.
The small boy was rushed to hospital in a critical condition after being hit by a tree in Blackburn south at about 6pm on Thursday.
A 59-year-old man also died after a tree crushed his car. He had been in a shopping centre carpark in Belgrave.
A 36-year-old woman, who was a passenger in a ute driving along the Maroondah Highway at Fernshaw, was also killed by a falling tree at 6.50pm. The driver suffered minor injuries.
Wind gusts as strong as 124 kilometres per hour were recorded in Mount Gellibrand, east of Colac.
Lilydale and Emerald in Melbourne’s outer east were hit the hardest by the storm.
Multiple suburbs across the city were plunged into darkness during the deadly storm.
There were still about 50,000 homes without power on Friday morning.
The State Emergency Service received 1700 calls for help throughout the night.
'We're urging any road users to please drive carefully and to the conditions particularly across the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne and the Yarra Ranges,' the SES said.
'Look out for fallen branches and debris.'
Meteorologists are predicting a calmer weekend ahead with westerly winds up to 20 km/h on Friday becoming light in the middle of the day then becoming north to northwesterly 15 to 20 km/h in the late evening.
Saturday should be a sunny 20C with northerly winds up to 40 km/h.
Multiple suburbs across the city were plunged into darkness during the deadly storm (the wild storm brought down powerlines and trees on Thursday)
Affected Melbourne suburbs
Yarra Valley Water warned residents in 88 Melbourne suburbs to not drink tap water over fears of contamination.
The issue is expected to be resolved later today.
ATTWOOD
FAWKNER
OLINDA
BAYSWATER
FOREST HILL
PARK ORCHARDS
BAYSWATER NORTH
GLEN WAVERLEY
PLENTY
BLACKBURN
GREENSBOROUGH
RESEARCH
BLACKBURN NORTH
GREENSBOROUGH
RESERVOIR
BLACKBURN SOUTH
GREENVALE
RINGWOOD
BORONIA
HEATHMONT
RINGWOOD EAST
BOX HILL NORTH
KALORAMA
RINGWOOD NORTH
BROADMEADOWS
KANGAROO GROUND
ROXBURGH PARK
BULLEEN
KILSYTH
SILVAN
BUNDOORA
KILSYTH SOUTH
SOMERTON
BURWOOD
KINGSBURY SOUTH
MORANG
BURWOOD EAST
LALOR
MOUNT WAVERLEY
YARRAMBAT
ELTHAM NORTH
WARRANDYTE
EPPING
NUNAWADING
TEMPLESTOWE
CAMPBELLFIELD
LILYDALE
TEMPLESTOWE LOWER
CHIRNSIDE PARK LOWER
PLENTY
THE BASIN
COBURG NORTH
MEADOW HEIGHTS
THOMASTOWN
COLDSTREAM
MELBOURNE AIRPORT
VERMONT
COOLAROO
MERNDA
VERMONT SOUTH
CRAIGIEBURN
MILL PARK
VIEWBANK
CROYDON
MITCHAM
WANTIRNA
CROYDON HILLS
MONBULK
WARRANDYTE
CROYDON NORTH
MONT ALBERT NORTH
WARRANDYTE SOUTH
CROYDON SOUTH
MONTMORENCY
WARRANWOOD
DALLAS
MONTROSE
WESTMEADOWS
DONCASTER
MOOROOLBARK
WOLLERT
DONCASTER EAST
MOUNT DANDENONG
WONGA PARK
DONVALE
MOUNT EVELYN
YALLAMBIE
DOREEN