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Water supply off to 9,500 homes Water supplies restored to homes
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Scottish Water engineers are continuing to work to restore water supplies to customers in parts of North Glasgow and Bishopbriggs. Water supplies have been restored to thousands of properties in north Glasgow and Bishopbriggs.
The company said an earlier mains failure occurred while contractors carried out essential repairs. Scottish Water engineers worked through the night on the "difficult repair" which followed a mains failure.
This led to low pressure and a loss of supply to around 9,500 properties. This led to low pressure and a loss of supply to about 9,500 properties, with bottled water being provided.
These were in Robroyston, Auchinairn, Zena Street in Barmulloch, Broomfield Road in Springburn and the Wester Cleddens Road area of Bishopbriggs. However, about 5,500 properties in the Barlornock, Royston and Millerston areas of Glasgow will continue to experience temporary loss of supply.
Scottish Water said it had provided bottled water at four locations, in order to minimise disruption to customers. A Scottish Water spokesman said it would take several hours before supplies returned to normal and that some customers may experience discoloured water as the supply is restored.
It said supplies had also been delivered to the doors of those Special Needs customers within this area. Bottled water
John Rae, Scottish Water's general manager for water operations, said: "Our engineers have done everything possible to restore full supply to our customers in the affected areas throughout north Glasgow and Bishopbriggs.
"In order to reduce disruption to our customers thousands of litres of bottled water has already been distributed to key locations in the affected area and this will continue until supplies are restored."
Bottled water has also been delivered directly to special needs customers.
Mr Rae added: "We would like to take this opportunity to apologise to our customers for this inconvenience and assure them that we are doing all we can to minimise the level of disruption to those affected."
The areas affected were in Robroyston, Auchinairn, Zena Street in Barmulloch, Broomfield Road in Springburn and the Wester Cleddens Road area of Bishopbriggs.