POLOKWANE – The Olifantspoort plant is now running at full capacity and pumping to the city has resumed, says Lepelle Northern Water.
This follows water supply disruptions due to high raw Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) levels at the plant on Sunday.
Nephelometric Turbidity Units. The instrument used for measuring it is called nephelometer or turbidimeter, which measures the intensity of light scattered at 90 degrees as a beam of light passes through a water sample.
“Ebenezer is also back in operation after experiencing electrical outage earlier this morning,” LNW adds.
The Polokwane Municipality says it will still take several hours before the water reaches all areas of supply and urge residents in areas receiving water to use water sparingly.
The municipality will continue to deploy water tankers to affected areas as water supply will take several hours to reach all areas.
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Lepelle Northern Water forced to shut Olifantspoort plant down due to raw water levels
POLOKWANE – The Olifantspoort plant had to be stopped due to a high raw Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) level which is above 70 000, says Lepelle Northern Water.
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Pumps were reduced, however, LNW says they were forced to stop the plant as the situation became worse.
As a result, all areas of supply will be affected, starting with high laying areas. Some areas in the city are already experiencing shortages. Yesterday, the Ebenezer plant was also off due to an electricity outage after a thunderstorm hit the area. All areas being supplied from that scheme were affected by water shortages.
The Polokwane Municipality says reservoir levels in the city are declining drastically as there is very low supply coming from the plants and that two reservoirs in the city are currently at 0%
Areas receiving water are urged to use it sparingly.
The reservoir readings this morning, 13 January, were as follows:
Ext 34 (Ivydale) – 48%
Pot – 34%
50Ml (Krugersburg) – 6%
30Ml (Krugersburg) – 0%
30Ml (Krugersburg) – 2%
Olifantspoort – 0.0l/s
Ebenezer – 0.0l/s
Seshego – 30%.
The municipality says they will deploy water tankers to affected areas.
