Water supply for thousands in Yorkshire Wolds restored after outage and burst main
Water supplies are getting back to normal after a power outage and burst main at a treatment works near Bridlington affected thousands of residents in the Yorkshire Wolds.
People living in Rudston, Driffield Wolds and Nafferton were advised on Monday that they may still be experiencing low water pressure, discoloured water or intermittent supply. It followed a power outage at Haisthorpe water treatment works on Friday, where raw water pumped from local boreholes undergoes treatment to produce drinking water for 24,000 homes.
Yorkshire Water said this was followed by a burst raw water main at the same works on Saturday.
This was fixed overnight into Sunday but because demand for water was so high it took longer than expected for the system to recover.
For the past two days people have been directed to Eastfield garden centre in Bridlington and Driffield Leisure Centure to pick up bottled water.
Meanwhile people on the priority services register, such as the elderly, disabled, and families with young children, have been getting water delivered.
Fridaythorpe experienced a temporary loss of supply, as a result of an air lock in the network, linked to the repairs over the weekend. Wolds Weighton councillor Leo Hammond said Yorkshire Water finally delivered bottled water on Monday morning to the village, adding: “Before then people were having to travel to Driffield, pick up water and leave it on the village green.”
He said horseowners had been concerned about how they were going to water their animals.
A spokesman for Yorkshire Water said supplies had now been restored: “We experienced a temporary loss of supply in Fridaythorpe as a result of an air lock in the network, linked to repairs over the weekend.
"Our teams delivered bottled to water to those on our priority services register and we have now restored all supplies.
"We apologise for any inconvenience during the temporary supply loss.”