Inverness water main burst disruption could continue after follow-up repairs identified
Inverness residents hit by water cuts yesterday are being warned that they “may experience further interruption” to their supplies on Sunday while follow-up repairs are made.
Some residents living in IV3 and IV5 postcodes in the city suffered water outages on Saturday after an eight inch water main ruptured in Englishton Muir.
Engineers worked throughout the night to restore supplies to a “small number of customers in this area” who experienced no water or low pressure.
But during the repairs workers “identified an additional fault on one of our valves within the same part of the water network” and follow-up works are planned for Sunday afternoon to fix that.
A spokesperson for Scottish Water said: “Our team have completed repairs on an 8” burst water main along Englishton Muir road throughout the night and supplies have restored after a small number of customers in this area experienced no water and low pressure.
“Customers in the IV3 and IV5 areas of Inverness may experience further interruption to their water supply today with an additional repair being required.
“Whilst carrying out last night's repair, we identified an additional fault on one of our valves within the same part of the water network. Plans are underway to begin a repair on this at around 12pm today with work continuing into the afternoon.
“The valve repair will be completed by 6pm this evening and water pressure will start increasing and return back to normal across this evening.
“We’d like to thank customers for their continued patience whilst works are underway. Our priority and commitment is to restore all water supplies back to normal as soon as possible for our customers.”
Elsewhere in the Highlands, there was also disruption in Alness on Sunday after a burst in the Easter Ross town. Motorists and pedestrians in the Perrins Road area were being warned of traffic disruption while Scottish Water carries out repairs.
