{"id":200040,"date":"2025-12-24T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/200040\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:36:10","slug":"risk-in-hastings-of-no-water-at-christmas-after-mains-repaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/200040\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk in Hastings of no water at Christmas after mains repaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hastings borough councillor Becca Horn told BBC Radio Sussex that the prospect of Christmas without water was &#8220;just really unthinkable&#8221; and she was &#8220;really hoping that it doesn&#8217;t get to that point&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Bownas, of the Hastings Business Improvement District, said he had &#8220;a degree of confidence that a lot of people don&#8217;t share that this will get sorted&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it was still &#8220;business as usual&#8221; in the town while the water supply remained on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Dollimore said she was &#8220;really angry about the impact this could have on our pubs, our restaurants, our hotels&#8221;, but that &#8220;Hastings is open for business, we have got a water supply&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The main had burst multiple times in recent years but only once led to a supply failure, according to Mr Bownas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southern Water said a \u00a350m project to replace the 5.6 mile (9km) pipe over three years had been brought forward to begin in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hastings borough councillor Becca Horn told BBC Radio Sussex that the prospect of Christmas without water was &#8220;just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-200040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}