several other outages<\/a> during the scorching summer.<\/p>\nIt also affected businesses in the town, with Yiayia’s Greek Bakery forced to shut.<\/p>\n
Mark Jefferys lost his water yesterday at about 6pm.<\/p>\n
This morning, he visited the bottled water station in the car park outside Herons Leisure Centre, in William Street.<\/p>\n
The Australian, who has lived in the UK for 35 years, told KentOnline: \u201cI think it\u2019s horrific to see people lined up at the leisure centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s sort of like disbelief really.<\/p>\n
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Mark Jeffreys, from Herne Bay, has been without water since yesterday. Picture: Mark Jeffreys<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think it\u2019s an absolute disgrace. I just can\u2019t get my head around that people have allowed it to get to this stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cCouncils are still building new estates on old pipes. It\u2019s not rocket science. You don’t have to be an expert to work it out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government really need to take (South East Water) over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Jeffreys also feels there has been a lack of communication from the firm.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurely someone must be able to give a rough update as to what is happening. There should be a manager available 24\/7,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere would be blood on the beaches in Australia if a company did this.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s crazy and is going to get worse…they [keep] building more houses.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bottled water station at Heron Leisure Centre will stay open today. Picture: Mark JeffreysIt is not the first time residents in Herne Bay have been left without water. Picture: Mark Jeffreys<\/p>\n
The owner of Yiayia’s Greek Bakery, Bobbley Philips, said: “Well we’ve lost trading for today. Even if we do get water coming slowly, we’ve been told it will come in with a very low pressure so we can\u2019t use it in our coffee machines.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve lost a whole day’s trading. I think it\u2019s disgusting. It\u2019s 2026 and this keeps happening. Water shortages, pipes breaking – how do small businesses manage to cope?<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m definitely going to investigate where I can seek compensation.”<\/p>\n
In an update at 1.35pm today, South East Water said it had completed the repairs, and that customers \u201cshould now see taps flowing as normal\u201d.<\/p>\n
South East Water\u2019s incident manager, Rob Hall said earlier this morning: \u201cWe\u2019re sorry to customers in Herne Bay affected by low water supplies following a burst main, which is now repaired.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are slowly refilling the network to protect storage tank levels and prevent further bursts, so water will continue returning throughout the morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cBottled water is being delivered to Priority Services customers, and our bottled water stations are open until 10pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe apologise for the frustration and are working tirelessly to restore normal service as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bottled water stations will remain open until 10pm as a precaution at the following locations: Sturry Road Park and Ride, Canterbury, CT1 1AD, Herne Bay leisure centre, William Street, Herne Bay, CT3 4LN and at Sainsburys, 6 The Blvd, Herne Bay, CT6 6GZ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homes were without water this morning due to a burst main, with queues forming at bottle stations. Some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,1397,59,2759,192,191,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-environment","tag-gb","tag-herne-bay","tag-human-interest","tag-kent","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}