Hunter Water is working with Elermore Vale residents to help get them back in their homes after more than a dozen townhouses were inundated by a torrent of water early Friday morning.
About 15 villas in a townhouse complex on Taurus Street were swamped by a metre of water when a 50 millimetre water main burst just before 4.00am.
The force of the waist-high water smashed a window in one of the units, with one resident describing being woken by a loud bang before rushing to help her neighbours with young babies to flee their homes.
Hunter Water says the same unit block flooded in 2010 when a water main burst and they'll be carrying out an examination of the system to see what can be done to prevent breaks in the future.
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| Water Inundates Homes In Taurus Street. Picture Triple M |
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| The Torrent Of Water Sweeps Through One Of The Units Picture: Triple M |
