A fountain of 30,000 litres of water poured onto Havelock North's Brookvale Rd on Wednesday morning after a mains pipe burst.
Hastings District Council staff were alerted to the burst pipe about 8.30am.
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The massive leak was caused when a fitting on an asbestos-concrete mains pipe that runs through Brookvale failed.
A council spokesperson said about 30,000 litres of water was lost before the mains pipe was turned off.