Burst pipe in underhill road near barry road

[tedfudge]

There's a burst pipe at underhill road near barry road and road is closed , the water was pouring down barry road so I walked along and moved leafs and debris away from drains and water stopped coming down barry road towards peckham rye. You would think that thames water would have someone there fixing issue but nope nobody there doing a thing but they want to tell us no hosepipe etc and charge us £75 a month. 

[mayo]

Yes. I saw it early Saturday morning. TW arrived and put cones out but not done anything about fixing it. So it’s been pouring out water for about 40 hours now. My most recent water bill was £90 more than the previous one although I had used less water….

 

[tedfudge]

7 minutes ago, mayo said:

Yes. I saw it early Saturday morning. TW arrived and put cones out but not done anything about fixing it. So it’s been pouring out water for about 40 hours now. My most recent water bill was £90 more than the previous one although I had used less water….

 

Its disgraceful especially when they want to charge us more and more 

[Happyme5]

How am I going to get work tomorrow.  Thames water have planned works at Underhill Rd where it meets Melford Rd.  So I decided to avoid the P13 and 363 bus routes this week.  Now if Barry Rd is closed it will affect the 197 and 12 bus routes.  I am so fed up with continuous disruption to basic transport in this area.  I love East Dulwich but I do not love the local transport and road works.

[Angelina]

After all the work they’ve done in the area recently? I can barely remember a time when there wasn’t road dug up, bus stops closed and one leak or another. 

Edited October 12, 2025 by Angelina

[tedfudge]

32 minutes ago, Happyme5 said:

How am I going to get work tomorrow.  Thames water have planned works at Underhill Rd where it meets Melford Rd.  So I decided to avoid the P13 and 363 bus routes this week.  Now if Barry Rd is closed it will affect the 197 and 12 bus routes.  I am so fed up with continuous disruption to basic transport in this area.  I love East Dulwich but I do not love the local transport and road works.

Barry road is not closed just underhill road

[Guest]

Guessing this has been reported to Thames Water, if you want to bump this and push it a bit harder, suggest posting on Thames Water Twitter/x page. 

[Penguin68]

Is Underhill closed to the north or south of Barry? Can you access Barry from the Horniman end of Underhill or not? 

[Happyme5]

It is open now it will have🚦 🚦 🚦 put in today.  Thames water are testing the lead levels  I think.

[tedfudge]

1 hour ago, Penguin68 said:

Is Underhill closed to the north or south of Barry? Can you access Barry from the Horniman end of Underhill or not? 

Horniman to Barry road closed

Edited October 13, 2025 by tedfudge

[Penguin68]

It was very firmly closed 2 minutes ago between Friern and Barry (diversion down Friern). The actual barriers are Just west of the Henslowe road junction. 

[Monkey]

What a mess this morning. The back roads around Goodrich are full of diverted traffic. Nearly got hit by an obscenely-sized blue Audi (AE71… please get this obscenity off the ED roads or at the very least learn how to drive it.) 

Edited October 13, 2025 by Monkey

[Penguin68]

3 hours ago, Monkey said:

(AE71… please get this obscenity off the ED roads or at the very least learn how to drive it.) 

If forced onto the road by the diversion this may not have been the driver's chosen route. Although a car (even a large SUV, unless it's a Hummer) should be able to navigate our side streets. But drivers do try to choose roads they are comfortable on. And it may be that the car isn't one the driver uses regularly. So may be less certain of e.g. clearances. 

[Happyme5]

Or some peeps just can not drive LOL the big posh motors they own.  

[Angelina]

some peeps can't drive and make me think of strict annual testing and harsher penalties.

but in the spirit of the thread, I don't think Thames Water could run a bath. That also makes me think of annual testing and harsher penalties.

[Happyme5]

LOL

[Penguin68]

To be fair to Thames, I've lived in Underhill for nearly 40 years and that's the first time I can recall that the pipework failed just there (happy to be corrected) - normally it's regular failings at the same spot. Of course both sides of the street are new builds (new to me anyway) formaly a garage and a wood yard on either side) so very possibly new mains installation there about 25-30 odd years ago. For Thames that's not a bad mean time between failures. 

[Angelina]

perhaps you haven't noticed the dug up roads around the area over the last year, at least.

[Happyme5]

Well this will help tomorrow morning for trying to get work from this end of Underhill Road.   I presume the bus stop will be closed again.   As I mentioned before this is to test the lead levels in Thames water.  By the way after googling I noticed England isn't even in the top 10 countries for water quality.  I wonder are we in the top ten for cost to individual 🏠 🏡?   Does anyone know? 

Edited October 13, 2025 by Happyme5
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