{"id":222534,"date":"2026-01-08T03:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222534\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:10:13","slug":"burst-pipes-sees-more-than-100-wellington-homes-left-without-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222534\/","title":{"rendered":"Burst pipes sees more than 100 Wellington homes left without water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV4H93_612493220_1349196667247415_7079923979948738780_n_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1098\" alt=\"Streets affected by a burst water pipe in Wellington's Kingston.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nStreets affected by a burst water pipe in Wellington&#8217;s Kingston.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Wellington Water\n<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 properties in the Wellington suburb of Kingston will be without water for at least six hours today due to a burst pipe.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Water said the pipe burst on Kingston Heights Road at about 11.30am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to protect the stormwater environment, we have turned the water off to this area,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is anticipated that service will be interrupted for at least six hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All 114 homes on Kingston Heights Road, Ontario Street, Laurent Place, Manitoba Place, Caribou Place and Stormont Place are affected.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Water estimates the water will be back on about 5.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Streets affected by a burst water pipe in Wellington&#8217;s Kingston. Photo: Supplied \/ Wellington Water More than 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-222534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222534","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=222534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}