Supply issue – Southampton and Eastleigh

When do you anticipate water provides to return to regular?

Now we have identified the foundation reason behind the difficulty that necessitated the closure of our Testwood Water Provide Works, inflicting widespread lack of provide to properties in elements of Southampton, Eastleigh, Romsey and the New Forest.

Now we have a transparent plan to repair the difficulty and our operational groups are working onerous on this, with the goal of finishing the preliminary part of the repair at Testwood by tomorrow morning.

Afterwards, it would take a while to re-charge the water community and restore provide to properties that had been affected. If these works proceed to our present plan prospects ought to begin to see provides restored throughout tomorrow. There could also be some pockets the place the method takes a bit longer, however our plan is for all prospects to be again on provide earlier than the weekend. 
 
The postcodes affected are SO15, SO16, SO40, SO42, SO43, SO45, SO50, SO51, SO52 and SO53.

Various water provides

Our Incident Various Response staff are working 24/7 to make sure we assist our most weak prospects and key companies.
 
We’re persevering with to ship bottled water to prospects on our Precedence Companies Register, and anticipate to finish our supply to greater than 12,000 properties by 7pm this night. If you need to be added to our register, please name 0330 303 0368.
 
Now we have tankers pumping water straight into our community to assist scale back the affect, and we even have three tankers devoted to Southampton Basic Hospital.
 
All impacted colleges within the space have been contacted. If a faculty has not been contacted, this implies they aren’t vulnerable to dropping water provide.

Bottled Water Stations

We’re at present restocking our Bottled Water Station at Locations Leisure Centre (Passfield Avenue, Eastleigh, SO50 9NL) and anticipate to have extra water on website at 4pm. Nonetheless, please remember this can be very busy with lengthy queues whereas vehicles wait.
 
We’re working onerous to open extra bottled water stations ASAP, and we are going to affirm as soon as we’ve got executed so.
 
Our web site and social media channels will proceed to be up to date, and we are going to present an additional replace by 6pm.
 
We’re sorry for the affect that is inflicting.