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City suburbs left without water as pipe bursts
Western Daily Press
|January 26, 2026
THOUSANDS of South Bristol homes spent the weekend without running water after one burst in the pipe became two.
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> Water was being handed out at a car park in South Bristol
Around 2,600 customers in the BS4 and BS14 areas initially lost supply on Friday morning.
And while the impacted main on Hawkfield Road was repaired on Saturday, a second leak was then discovered during the recharging process, requiring complex excavation work to remedy the problem.
A bottled water station was set up in Hengrove Way.
This story is from the January 26, 2026 edition of Western Daily Press.
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