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Thousands left without power in Melbourne CBD after local outage
Key takeaways
- A burst water main has caused a power outage in Melbourne's CBD.
- Citipower said a burst water main flooded a public car park on Little Collins Street in the city, with floodwaters entering a zone substation in the basement of the property.
- "For safety, we have turned off power from this site, which supplies about 10,000 customers in the south-eastern sections of Melbourne's CBD," a Citipower spokesperson said.
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Topic:Electricity Production and Distribution. A burst water main has caused a power outage in Melbourne's CBD. (ABC News: Tristan Hooft)
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Citipower said a burst water main flooded a public car park on Little Collins Street in the city, with floodwaters entering a zone substation in the basement of the property.
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