AUSTINTOWN TWP., Ohio - Crews from the Youngstown Water Department were still working Thursday to restore full water pressure to homes and businesses in Austintown and Canfield.

A contractor sliced a two-inch gash in a 42-inch-water main off Kirk Road in Austintown Wednesday afternoon, sending a plume of water into the air.

Officials say the low pressure could continue through the evening until a welder can repair the rupture.

Austintown schools are still in session, however parents have been notified by robocalls that the schools are making bottled water available to students.

School superintendent, Vincent Colaluca, says "We actually reached out to the health department and they assured us as long as we had water for our students and something to clean their hands with, hand sanitizer, we'd be able to keep schools open."

Officials from the water department say they now need to figure out why this happened in the first place.

"Whoever owns the property granted the city an easement in the 1970's and apparently they gave the cell tower folks another easement on top of our easement which doesn't make sense. So there's going to have to be some research done and somebody's wrong," says Gene Leson, from the Youngstown Water Department. 

No boil alert has been issued.