{"id":271109,"date":"2026-02-06T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271109\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:14:11","slug":"bristol-water-working-on-very-large-burst-water-main-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271109\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Water working on &#8216;very large&#8217; burst water main in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Very deep&#8217; hole at the site of the burstpublished at 12:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/d0bb9929-4b7f-4861-8b94-17f6bd4753b9.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Ross Pollard<br \/>Live page reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A large hole in the road at the scene of a burst water main. The pipe can be seen.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0833bcde-612d-490b-a2ab-cf849cab8507.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"5712\" height=\"3213\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I can see a very large JCB and lots and lots of Bristol Water staff next to this very, very large hole. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s very deep, so deep that the staff who are down the hole have their heads below the road level. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There\u2019s no water to be seen here at the moment, but there was first thing this morning when it happened in the early hours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We understand the water pressure is actually causing some of the pavement to be lifted here as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve had council workers here as well as Bristol Water staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the moment, we still don\u2019t know when that water is coming back on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Very deep&#8217; hole at the site of the burstpublished at 12:19 GMT 12:19 GMT Ross PollardLive page reporter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-271109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271109","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=271109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}