Thames Water employee desperately puts cones round 30ft jet of water from burst main

The h2o main gave mode successful Guildford, Surrey with capable unit to marque it perchance dangerous, portion workers rapidly leapt into enactment to marque definite radical were kept back

A workman sent to woody with a 30ft pitchy of h2o has been ridiculed aft helium was seen connected camera desperately placing cones astir a burst h2o main.

Drinkers successful a pub adjacent were treated to an impromptu show erstwhile the h2o main gave mode successful Guildford, Surrey, yesterday. A fountain of h2o began gushing into the aerial with capable unit to marque it perchance dangerous, prompting workers to rapidly leap into enactment to marque definite radical were kept back.

One clip shows an worker carrying a postulation cone successful each manus and heading towards the spout. The hydrant was located astatine an A roadworthy junction, adjacent to the Wooden Bridge pub, which made a gag of the concern by posting a video connected its Facebook page. It said: "Lovely caller h2o diagnostic extracurricular the pub today! We're inactive unfastened arsenic usual!! The span and our car parkland are wide and Thames Water onsite fixing it now!"

Another video taken by Lee Spiers shows the immense h2o diagnostic from a span nearby, with a mechanical digger adjacent by. Some joked that the digger relation would person ne'er moved truthful quickly, portion others sniggered: "Guildford has a caller h2o fountain."

Meanwhile, others poked amusive astatine the antheral who tried to enactment cones astir the 'fountain', scoffing: "It's alright, present comes a bloke with a mates of cones...". Another amused commenter said: "And they archer US to not discarded water," portion 1 added: "But beryllium definite to lone instrumentality a speedy shower, h2o your plot with a teaspoon, cleanable your car with a bedewed wipe. If ever a institution needed nationalising.....".

Properties successful 3 postcodes were affected by debased unit oregon nary h2o acknowledgment to the burst main. However the repair was implicit by astir 4.30pm and supplies began to return. A spokeswoman said: "Our engineers person responded to the burst from a hydrant astatine the junction of Manor Road and Woodbridge Hill successful Guildford, and the repair is present complete. Everyone who was impacted, should present find their h2o is backmost on."