{"id":570217,"date":"2026-08-15T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570217\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:36:13","slug":"major-water-pipe-bursts-in-porirua-causing-disruptions-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570217\/","title":{"rendered":"Major water pipe bursts in Porirua causing disruptions, closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A water pipe has burst in central Porirua this afternoon, causing major outages and business closures in the city centre and nearby suburbs of R\u0101nui and Elsdon. <\/p>\n<p>Tiaki Wai said it had responded to a burst 300mm main on Mepham Pl, Porirua at 2.21pm on Saturday, which had caused the road&#8217;s asphalt to crack. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is anticipated that service will be interrupted for at least 8 hours,&#8221; the organisation said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are awaiting urgent markouts and traffic control before the excavation process can begin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a-burst-water-pipe-on-mepham-place-in-porirua-RDZL3MNDEBETRE66IWPBZUDR6I.jpg\" alt=\"A burst water pipe on Mepham Place in Porirua.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A burst water pipe on Mepham Place in Porirua. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>A water tanker had been ordered and would be located on the corner of Champion St and Mepham Pl for affected residents. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are aware of a larger outage area and are currently investigating the cause, but it is believed to be related to this incident,&#8221; Tiaki Wai added. <\/p>\n<p>Porirua City Council said the Porirua Library, P\u0101taka Art + Museum, CBD public toilets and and Te Rauparaha Arena and Aquatic Centre had been forced to close. <\/p>\n<p>People were encouraged to check Tiaki Wai for further information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water pipe has burst in central Porirua this afternoon, causing major outages and business closures in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[687,111,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-570217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-housing-and-infrastructure","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570217","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=570217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}