A burst pipe sent water flooding across an Auckland street overnight, damaging the road, disrupting water supply, and forcing businesses to close. <\/p>\n
Police said officers were called to Boundary Road in New Windsor at around 10.15pm yesterday following reports of road flooding and a possible car crash. <\/p>\n
Kunal Chand, owner of nearby eatery Dundale’s Fusion Fijian Cafe, told 1News staff were preparing to close for the night when they heard a loud noise outside.<\/p>\n
“We came outside and saw a very big flood happening outside,” Chand said.<\/p>\n
He described the road as “bubbling upwards” before bursting open and sending water spilling across the street. <\/p>\n
Staff alerted emergency services and attempted to stop motorists from driving through the damaged area. <\/p>\n
He said the business couldn’t open this morning after losing its water supply overnight. <\/p>\n
“It’s extremely frustrating,” he said, adding that weekends were among the business’s busiest trading periods, with Saturday and Sunday earnings typically covering staff wages.<\/p>\n
“If you don’t have water, there’s no sense of getting around.” <\/p>\n
Cause of burst main unknown<\/p>\n
Watercare water networks operations manager Rex Chou said crews located the burst pipe outside 50 Boundary Rd at around 11pm.<\/p>\n
Crews excavated and isolated the damaged section by 2.10am, allowing water supply to be restored to some affected customers.<\/p>\n
Chou said water had since been restored to all properties, although emergency road repairs were continuing.<\/p>\n
“Our priority was restoring the water supply, and the cause of the burst is still being investigated,” he said.<\/p>\n
A stop\/go system remained in place around the damaged section, allowing vehicles to continue using the road while repairs were carried out.<\/p>\n
“We greatly appreciate everyone’s patience while we do these emergency repairs.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A burst pipe sent water flooding across an Auckland street overnight, damaging the road, disrupting water supply, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[51,273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-633024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-auckland","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633024","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=633024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}