Rand Water warns some reservoirs, towers affected by recent maintenance programme
Rand Water on November 17 successfully completed the installation of the two valve rigs on the B11/B19 pipeline.
The B11 raw water pipeline is now back in commission supplying water to the Vereeniging Water Treatment Works (WTW), which were restored to fully supply Rand Water’s Eikenhof pump station, which is supplying some municipal customers.
Several of Rand Water’s reservoirs are, however, still very low owing to the recent completed maintenance programme and will take time to recover to full capacity, Rand Water said in its statement.
It further warned that the Meredale and Foresthill reservoirs (0.58 m) were critically low, subsequently impacting on several municipal reservoirs within the Johannesburg Water network.
Full pumping supply to these reservoirs has been restored and Rand Water will provide Johannesburg Water with two-hourly updates on the status of these reservoir levels, until Johannesburg Water is able to start pumps from its Forest Hill tower to supply water to the affected areas.
A head of 1.5 m is required before water can be pumped from the Forest Hill tower.
Reservoirs and towers under Johannesburg Water are affected, and include, besides others, the South Hill and Forest Hill towers, as well as Crown Gardens, Eagles Nest, Naturena and Allenmanor.
Consumers within the City of Johannesburg metropolitan municipality are requested to be patient and to use water sparingly during this period to allow the systems to recover fully and put water back into the various Rand Water and municipal reservoirs, Rand Water commented.
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