Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely says that Southern Water has confirmed that 20,000 homes on the south of the Island will have low or no water pressure tomorrow morning (Thursday).
This is due to the after effects of the flooding.
Mr Seely explains:
"I have made requests to Southern Water for bottled water stations in Brighstone, Niton and Wroxall.
"They are looking at options and will update on water locations in the coming hours on their website and social media.
"For those on the priority register, water will be delivered to you.
"More broadly, SW explain that any rain ‘event’ over 25mm is said to be very serious. This ‘event’ we’ve had on the Island was 65mm, so we have had two months rain in the space of less than a day."
Mr Seely has revealed that the Southern Water responded with the following statement:
"Following extremely heavy rain through Tuesday evening and into Wednesday morning on the Isle of Wight, there is extensive surface water flooding across the island.
"This is placing significant pressure on our water and wastewater networks. This is making operations at wastewater pumping stations and water supply works much more difficult than normal.
"Southern Water teams and partners continue to work hard to try to minimise water supply issues to customers’ homes and businesses, and wastewater flooding impacts, in a safe and controlled manner.
"In terms of water supply risk, from tomorrow morning (26 October), we expect our customers on the island to experience low pressure or no water to the south side of the Island with a property count impacted of approximately 11,000 properties.
"This could extend to a further 20,000 properties (30,000 in total) by later in the day. To manage this supply risk, we are proactively doing the following:
- This morning we stood up an incident to manage and coordinate the situation, to try to reduce impacts to our customers.
- We are coordinating the delivery of bottled water to our most vulnerable customers on our Priority Services Register.
- We are working with our partners to coordinate suitable sites for bottled water stations.
- Tankers are on the island to support the recovery of the network.
"We have received several reports of internal property flooding, caused by hydraulic overload of the sewer network.
"Those that have been confirmed as flooding from the sewer network are being attended by our specialist clean up teams. Our customer teams on-site are also continuing to provide support to any customers directly affected."
The Environment Agency says the weekend saw the Island's fourth highest tide of year recorded.
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