Johannesburg Water announced an unplanned maintenance in Sandton. Photo: Pixabay.com
Sandton to experience 20-hour Water Outage from TODAY
Johannesburg Water lists the affected reservoirs and towers to be impacted by the 20-hour water outage in Sandton.
Johannesburg Water announced an unplanned maintenance in Sandton. Photo: Pixabay.com
Unplanned maintenance is expected to disrupt water supply in the whole of Sandton, north of Johannesburg today, Thursday, 11 December.
ABOUT THE SANDTON WATER SUPPLY DISRUPTION
Johannesburg Water announced the 20-hour water outage, commencing on Thursday, 11 January until the following day (Friday, 12 January 2024).
The start time for the outage will be 17:00 on 11 January until 13:00 on 12 January. The impact on the customers will be no water on all the streets in Sandton.
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THE REASON FOR THE WATER OUTAGE
The reason for the interruption is Rand Water replacing a broken isolation valve at the Sandton 1 meter supply system.
Johannesburg Water has indicated that an alternative water supply in the form of water tankers will be provided.
Affected reservoirs include:
- Bryanston reservoir
- Bryanston tower
- Illovo reservoir
- Illovo tower
- Morningside reservoir
- Linbro Park reservoir
- Malboro Reservoir
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RAND WATER UPDATE
Meanwhile, Rand Water updated that technical meetings between them and the Gauteng Metros (City of Ekurkhleni, City of Johannesburg and City of Tshwane) are continuing in the New Year.
The bulk water supplier indicated that no challenges were experienced from the bulk supply during the festive season, and all systems were stable.
“Rand Water is pumping at full capacity, however, noting a slight increase in consumption this week. As industries and businesses will commence operations from next week onwards, Rand Water implores all its customers to continue to request their consumers and citizens to continue to use water sparingly,” the entity appealed.
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DID YOU KNOW?
In an effort to reduce consumption, the bulk supplier has encouraged rain harvesting from the customers, saying approximately 2270 litres of water can be harvested from 25mm of rain falling on a 92 square meter roof.
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This is a developing story.
