Parts of Tshwane hit by water outages due to weekend explosion
The metro has procured 42 water tankers to supply water to the affected areas.
Areas in the north of Pretoria and Centurion have been hit by water outages this week after an explosion at a Rand Water pumping station over the weekend.
Residents in regions 1 and 2 can expect water outages due to the breakdown at the Palmiet pump station, the metro said.
“We dispatched extra water tankers to areas in the city that have experienced water supply outage as a result of the system breakdown,” said Tshwane metro spokesperson, Selby Bokaba.
Bokaba said the metro has procured 42 water tankers to supply water to the affected areas.
The below suburbs have been affected by the outage:
– Olievenhoutbosch and extensions
– Rua Vista
– Thatchfield
– The Reeds
– Rooihuiskraal
– Kosmosdal
– Portions of Louwlardia and Monavoni.
The following areas are currently without water:
– Rosslyn
– Soshanguve block L, K, DD, M,UU and VV
– Mabopane block X, T, UX, V,B, M, E, S, D and A
– Winterveldt
– Ga-Rankuwa
Bokaba further urged residents in region 1 to stop preventing tankers from drawing water from a fire hydrant at Odi.
The Palmiet system supplies water to two reservoirs, namely, Brakfontein (which supplies region 4, parts of region 3 and Hartebeeshoek (supplying region 1).
“Since the Hartebeeshoek reservoir is at the tail end of the chain, less or no water is flowing to it because of the reduced flow from Rand Water.”
Rand Water informed the metro on Monday that it had managed to get one of the damaged pumps up and running again.
Their system, however, still has a shortfall of 300 megalitres to be fully operational.
“We are still awaiting further updates from them,” said Bokaba.
“It must be noted that the metro’s system can only recover once Rand Water’s system is back to full operation; otherwise, the situation will remain like this, or might even get worse.”
Bokaba apologised to residents for the inconvenience caused by a situation which was “beyond the metro’s control”.
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