Water supply slowly returning to Pretoria areas

The water supply to Pretoria suburbs plagued by an outage over the past few days would be fully restored soon.

This was after Rand Water said it resumed pumping at full capacity.

The announcement came after the City of Ekurhuleni restored power supply to its Mapleton Booster station on Wednesday.

Last week, the booster station suffered low levels of water due to Eskom’s transformer that tripped.

This led to the water supply to Tshwane’s Vlakfontein reservoir running low and leaving several suburbs without water for almost a week.

On Wednesday, the Tshwane metro said the Ekurhuleni substation supplying power to Rand Water’s pump station was restored and running at full capacity.

“We should again see a build-up and improvement in levels at both Rand Water’s and our reservoir this evening (Wednesday), with gradual restoration of water to all of Tshwane. “We ask again that residents use water sparingly during this period to best protect reservoir levels,” the Tshwane metro said in a statement.

On Thursday morning, Rand Water said that the recovery system would take some time to fully recover as most reservoirs were very low.

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— Rand Water (@Rand_Water) February 10, 2022

“Some residents in high-lying areas may not get water immediately as the system may take days to fully recover.”

The metro said water tankers were being procured to assist in the high lying areas of the city that will take the longest to have their water restored.

“They should go out later today, coordinated by the local City of Tshwane Regions and communicated via the Ward Councillors.”

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