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Tewkesbury homes still without water after pipe burst Tewkesbury homes still without water after pipe burst
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About 10,000 homes and businesses are without water for a second day following a burst main. About 10,000 homes and businesses have been without water for a second day following a burst main.
Severn Trent said repair work to a broken pipe in Tewkesbury was "extremely difficult" and had proved more complicated than they had hoped.Severn Trent said repair work to a broken pipe in Tewkesbury was "extremely difficult" and had proved more complicated than they had hoped.
A third bottled-water collection point is being set up in the town. Some supplies have begun to be restored after water was moved from other parts of the network, a spokesman for the water company said.
The supply has been off since the early hours of Friday. The water company said it was still unknown when the repairs would be completed. They added it was still unknown when the pipe repairs would be completed.
"The burst has happened on a 36-inch pipe, which is one of the biggest in the area, and it's located in a flooded field which is making the repair work extremely difficult, particularly in darkness," a spokesman for Severn Trent said. The supply went off in the early hours of Friday.
"We're continuing to try and move water around the network in different ways to keep people on supply and we're using as many tankers as we can to inject water into our pipes as quickly as we can." "There is still a lot of work to do, and the system is very complicated and so will take a few hours to refill, so please bear with us," a Severn Trent spokesman said.
"The burst has happened on a 36-inch pipe, which is one of the biggest pipes we have in our network, and it's located in a flooded field which is making the repair work extremely difficult and trickier than usual.
"Overnight conditions were tricky, the river flooded, and so it's making it incredibly difficult to see what we're dealing with.
"Our priority has been to get supplies back on, before fixing the burst, so we're continuing to try and move water around the network in different ways and we're using a fleet of 20 tankers to inject water directly into our pipes to help get the water back on as quickly as we can."
More than 296,000 litres of bottled water has been handed out, the company said.
Two bottled water collection points have been set up at Morrisons in Barton Road and at Tewkesbury School in Ashchurch Road.Two bottled water collection points have been set up at Morrisons in Barton Road and at Tewkesbury School in Ashchurch Road.
A third collection point that was set up at Gloucester Road car and coach park is being closed and moved to a new location, the spokesman said. A third collection point that was in Gloucester Road car and coach park has been closed and will be moved to a new location.