DS Risk Warning Part Bristol Customers: Water supply outage and the hottest day

Hello all,

There are radio announcements on this and the Bristol Water web site says the following:

Area:
No water – Speedwell, Eastville, Fishponds & lower Horfield

Issue: No water

3:00am

Customers within the Speedwell, Eastville, Fishponds & lower Horfield areas may be experiencing no water supply or low water pressure.

We are currently at the scene of the burst and identifying a repair. Thank you for your patience and regular updates will be made available once we can more accurately provide a repair completion time.

5:30am

We have closed Royate Hill, Eastville BS5 to allow us to carry out the repair safely and there is a diversion route in place. We aim to have a further update shortly and would like to thank you for your patience.

https://www.bristolwater.co.uk/

The most recent announcement said bottled water will be available from a distribution point to be confirmed shortly.

Ground movement due to the heat has been identified as the issue.

The water issue will impact on both those providing a service at present and those who aren't. Service continuity will be difficult in the circumstances with no indication as to restoration of a viable supply. When it is restored action will be needed in the area indicated to make sure that sophisticated systems are not adversely impacted by the outage and won't restart, go in to alarm mode, etc. Flushing will probably be necessary.

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Forecasters are predicting the hottest day on record today. As we've clarified there's no upper level to curtailing work. It is down to risk assessment and control measures which appear to be needed more often over recent years.

All the best.

Bill

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