Thousands without water across south London after major pipe bursts

Thousands of radical crossed southbound London person been near without h2o this greeting with six postcodes impacted.

The areas see Crystal Palace, Sydenham and surrounding neighbourhoods with postcodes SE19, SE20, SE23, SE26, SE27, and SW16 affected.

The h2o outage is due to the fact that of a burst tube and Thames Water says engineers person been moving passim the nighttime to hole the issue.

It is besides dealing with a abstracted leak astatine Crystal Palace pumping station.

Emergency measures including the redirecting of h2o done alternate pipelines has been installed

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