Burst pipe leaves parts of Penryn without water for 12 hours - VIDEO (From Falmouth Packet)

Burst pipe leaves parts of Penryn without water for 12 hours - VIDEO

10:27am Friday 15th March 2013 in News By Greg Fountain, Reporter/Photographer

Parts of Penryn were left without water for 12 hours last night and the Kernick Industrial Estate "looked like Venice" according to eyewitnesses after a pipe burst on the site.

Water could be seen gushing out from a broken 12 inch water main from approximately 6.45pm, which "mainly affected students living on Tremough Campus" according to a spokesperson from South West Water.

"Customers in the wider Penryn area" were also affected, however.

A bowser and water containers were delivered to the campus and workers struggled on throughout the night to fix the burst.

Normal service was restored by 7am.

(BELOW) Watch a video of water swamping parts of the Kernick Industrial Estate taken by Packet reader Tom

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