South Lake Tahoe Public Utility District customers were without water this morning when a water line was severed.

A contractor early Oct. 16 struck a 14-inch line at Cedar Avenue and La Salle Street near the state line.

It is not known how many customers were without water. Some just experience low pressure. Service was restore by 10:15am.

“Up to 60 percent of the district’s customers from Stateline to the Y may have experienced low water pressure for about an hour between 9-10am this morning as a result of the broken water main,” Shelly Thomsen with STPUD told Lake Tahoe News.

Thousands of gallons of water was lost.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report