{"id":687017,"date":"2026-01-10T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687017\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:47:10","slug":"east-grinstead-water-supply-issues-affect-16500-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687017\/","title":{"rendered":"East Grinstead water supply issues affect 16,500 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Andrews apologised to customers in the East Grinstead area, stating: &#8220;In total, we believe that this issue is affecting in the region of 16,500 properties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Storm Goretti has affected our ability to treat the raw water at the normal rate at our main Sussex water treatment works. I can confirm that all water currently in our network is safe to drink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Coupled with the outbreak of burst water mains on our network due to the freeze\/thaw conditions being experienced across Sussex, our drinking water storage levels in the East Grinstead area have now been exhausted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Regrettably we do not expect water supplies to start to return to normal until the end of the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bottled water was being delivered to people on South East Water&#8217;s priority register, said the firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes as residents in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, have been told they can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0mkwdndvvvo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expect continued disruption to their water supply until Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week, South East Water said cold weather had caused a &#8220;series of burst water mains,&#8221; leaving 6,500 customers in the area without any service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Andrews apologised to customers in the East Grinstead area, stating: &#8220;In total, we believe that this issue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-687017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115871589578946194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}