Water supply restored after thousands of homes in Merseyside left without
A burst water pipe in Litherland has caused problems over the weekend
Water is slowly returning to tens of thousands of homes across Merseyside, who've had to cope without over the weekend.
A burst water pipe in Litherland has left around 32,000 properties with no water or low pressure since the early hours of Saturday.
In an update, United Utilities posted this morning:
'We’d like to thank everyone for their ongoing patience and understanding over the weekend. We’re really sorry for the disruption to your water supply, caused by a large burst on Church Road. The damage was severe and led to an extremely complex repair, which took longer than we’d hoped to complete.
'Restoring supplies has been our top priority and our teams have worked round the clock to complete the repair. Where possible we have had water tankers pumping additional supplies into the network to help with attempts to get taps flowing again.
'There could be a delay in your water pressure returning to what you are used to, as we have to turn the water on gradually after a repair to avoid further problems.
'Sometimes after a repair discolouration to supplies may occur, this is due to the repair work on the pipe and should clear after a short time. Please take a look at our discoloured water page for more information. Please be assured, we will be keeping a very close eye on the situation over the next couple of days to ensure all customer’s supplies do return to normal.
'A quick reminder for customers impacted, we will proactively contact and automatically pay any customer entitled to compensation so customers don’t need to get in touch with us directly about this.'