There are two water leaks on Oxford Road in Abingdon, on either side of the Appleford Drive junction near the speed camera. TW engineers have visited the leaks and marked them with blue. Those leaks are at least two weeks old.
A look at the Thames Water reporting website map shows other leaks in other locations in Abingdon.
Newspapers are comparing the amount of water lost through leaks against the amount saved by the hosepipe ban – introduced today. For example ‘Thames Water wastes the same amount of water as leaving a hosepipe on every single day for more than 73 years, trade union GMB has claimed. The union said that Thames Water’s creaking infrastructure loses 635m litres in leaks every single day.’