{"id":257273,"date":"2026-01-29T07:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257273\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:29:09","slug":"burst-water-pipe-sends-silt-into-wellingtons-oriental-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257273\/","title":{"rendered":"Burst water pipe sends silt into Wellington&#8217;s Oriental Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JU19RY_622661402_1366628578837557_1367291217162553288_n_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"455\" alt=\"Wellington Water says crews are working to fix a burst water pipe on Oriental Parade in Wellington.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nWellington Water says crews are working to fix a burst water pipe on Oriental Parade in Wellington.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Wellington Water\n<\/p>\n<p>A burst water pipe has sent silt and discoloured water into Wellington&#8217;s Oriental Bay on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>At 2.30pm crews responded to a burst drinking water pipe on Oriental Parade.<\/p>\n<p>Following the pipe breakage silt and discoloured water entered the stormwater system &#8211; causing it to flow into the harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Welllington Water said the material was quickly contained.<\/p>\n<p>The team was using a sucker truck to clean out sumps in the area to prevent further discharge, it said.<\/p>\n<p>At 5.25pm, Wellington Water said the fault had been located towards the side of the road which meant that there were no traffic issues.<\/p>\n<p>It expected work to repair the pipe would take several hours.<\/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":"Wellington Water says crews are working to fix a burst water pipe on Oriental Parade in Wellington. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257274,"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-257273","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\/257273","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=257273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}