Burst South West Water main causes outage in Cornwall - homes, businesses and schools without water

South West Water customers are reporting issues with supplies. Credit: PA Images

Large parts of Cornwall were left without water or with low pressure following a major water main burst.

Two schools which should have been open on Tuesday 23 July were forced to close. St Agnes Academy and Threemilestone School both said they were closed all day because they had no water.

Thousands of South West Water customers have been affected in Truro, St Agnes and Redruth along with most of the Roseland peninsula.

In a statement South West Water said: “We are working hard to repair a burst on one of our large mains that supplies postcodes in the TR area of Cornwall.

"Customers in the area may be experiencing low water pressure or a temporary loss of supply.

"We are working to divert flows on our network to restore customer supplies as soon as possible whilst our teams work on fixing the burst. We are very sorry for the disruption caused."

The company said people living in postcode areas TR1-TR16 have been affected.

South West Water issued an update in the afternoon of Tuesday 23 July, saying it had revalved the network and properties should be seeing their supply return.