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UPDATE ON WATER DISRUPTIONS OCCURING IN PARTS OF THE CITY AS A RESULT OF A BURST PIPE ON THE EAST / WEST TRANSFER PIPELINE.

The Municipality wishes to update residents that ten (10) additional water tankers have been added to the 10 that has been there for the duration of today. This has been done to make sure that the City meets the demand. In total there are twenty (20) water tankers available.

These tankers have been deployed to the locations below:

1) Roaming in Malabar, Extension 6

2) Hunters Retreat Spar

3) Sherwood Spar

4) Verdun Road, Checkers

5) Welcome Street & Kragga Kamma Road, Theescombe

6) Louis Dubb Old Age Home

7) Van Der Kemp Street, Parkside

8) Sunridge Park Mall

9) Linton Grange PnP

Tankers may leave to refill, however they will return to the above locations.

Residents will be able to collect water at these locations until 21:00 this evening and resume again tomorrow from 05h00.

We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused and encourage residents to use water for essential purposes only.

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UPDATE ON THE WATER DISRUPTIONS

The Municipality would like to inform residents that the water pressure at the Standford Road pump station has reduced significantly.

The technicians were able to fix a burst that was suspected to be the cause of the low pressure on the pumps. Although the pipe has been repaired and re-opened, the pressure has remained too low to allow for the installation of a third pump, since only roughly 60 million litres of water per day is being pumped to the western areas.

Water is still being supplied, but it is being used entirely by the lower-lying areas, leaving nothing for the higher-lying parts.

This is the third burst discovered since the pipeline's repair operations began. As a result, the repair period is considerably lengthy.

The teams are currently troubleshooting to determine whether or not there are any more serious issues. An update will be sent as soon as possible.

Water tankers have been deployed to the locations below:

1) Roaming in Barcelona.

2) Verdun Road, Checkers.

3) Airport.

4) Hunters Retreat Spar.

5) Sherwood Spar.

6) Schauderville Moore Dyke.

7) Roaming in Malabar, Extension 6.

8) Linton Grange PnP

9) Roaming in Gelvandale and Parkside

10) La Provinc, Old Seaview Road

We appeal to residents in the low-lying areas to please reduce their water consumption.

We would like to express our sincere apologies for any trouble this has caused.

URGENT ALERT!!!

UPDATE ON WATER DISRUPTIONS OCCURING IN PARTS OF THE CITY AS A RESULT OF A BURST PIPE ON THE EAST / WEST TRANSFER PIPELINE.

The Municipality wishes to inform residents that the pipeline has been repaired and opened. The pumps are running and are pumping a flow of 65 million liters per day.

The maintenance teams have patrolled the lines and no major bursts or leaks were found. Therefore, the main reason for the reduced flow being pumped, can only be attributed to the higher than expected water demand on the supply system.

The maintenance teams will continue to check the major pipelines and the pump stations.

We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused and encourage residents to use water for essential purposes only.

URGENT ALERT!!!

UPDATE ON WATER DISRUPTIONS OCCURING IN PARTS OF THE CITY AS A RESULT OF A BURST PIPE ON THE EAST / WEST TRANSFER PIPELINE.

The Municipality wishes to update residents that all repairs were completed successfully and are holding firm.

As indicated yesterday, the priming of the system is complete. This was done slowly to prevent any latent bursts. The bypass and valves are fully opened and about 80 mega litres per day is being pumped from East to West.

All western reservoirs have water from the overnight recovery and will continue to fill up during the day. Certain areas, especially those closer located to Greenbushes will have low pressure for an extended period.

We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused and encourage residents to use water for essential purposes only.

URGENT ALERT!!!

UPDATE ON WATER DISRUPTIONS OCCURING IN PARTS OF THE CITY AS A RESULT OF A BURST PIPE ON THE EAST / WEST TRANSFER PIPELINE.

The teams have completed the second leak repair. No welding was required as the problem was not a seam line crack, but a slipped Viking Johnson (VJ) coupling that has since been tightened.

Teams are backfilling the soil that has been excavated from the site and will then start priming the pipe. The bypass will then slowly be opened at Stanford Road pumpstation.

Many reservoirs have run critically low and therefore, recovery will take place gradually overnight. Residents should have water supply by tomorrow morning.

We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.