{"id":348017,"date":"2026-03-26T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348017\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:35:09","slug":"burst-pipe-cuts-water-to-three-wellington-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/348017\/","title":{"rendered":"Burst pipe cuts water to three Wellington suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4KI61Z9_RNZD5762_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA file photo of a damaged water pipe in the capital.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Parts of three Wellington suburbs are without water as crews work to repair a burst drinking water pipe.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Water crews responded to the burst pipe on Washington Avenue in Brooklyn at 7am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The water supplier says crews are working to restore supply in stages to Brooklyn, Mornington and Vogeltown.<\/p>\n<p>They say two water tankers will provide water for residents.<\/p>\n<p>A Welllington Water spokesperson says water may be being discharged from fire hydrants as teams manage the water pressure in the area.<\/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":"A file photo of a damaged water pipe in the capital. Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER Parts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348018,"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":["post-348017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348017","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=348017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}