Pressure affects water supply to homes on high ground
Certain households in Alberton North and South Crest (border of Carter Street, top part of Eeuwfees, top part of Jan Meyer, Kerk and Basson Street) were affected by water pressure, City of Ekurhuleni weighs in.
For close to a month, water pressure was lower than it used to be in certain homes situated on high ground in South Crest and Alberton North.
This, however, saw some residents complaining about not having water throughout the day.
Ward 106 committee member Bronwyn Brajevich and Clr Tim Denny said, “We’ve been made aware that every night certain streets were without water. This has been going on since early September.”
The South Crest Residents Association (SCRA) was contacted by some residents who advised that they were battling with low water pressure.
SCRA’s Hennie Grobler and Deidre de Carvalho set up a meeting with the City of Ekurhuleni’s Hendrik Groenewald who explained that there were damages to the operating system and that the city was in the process of procuring the necessary parts.
“The damage did affect the water pressure to homes situated on high ground in both South Crest and Alberton North. The good news is that the part has been replaced. The SCRA worked tirelessly with the technicians from the CoE who were deployed on a daily basis to adjust the water pressure so that residents had water,” said De Carvalho.
She said they were impressed with the service that they received from council and thanked the water department and the team of technicians for keeping them updated.
According to Ekurhuleni spokesperson Zweli Dlamini, they had a dual controller on their control valve supplying water from Rand Water toward South Crest and Alberton North.
“This was vandalised and stolen from the control valve a few months ago and because of frequent burst pipes during low demand between 01:00 and 03:00 in the mornings, we started to control it manually during night hours. This causes low pressures at night with a small area of almost no water,” he said.
During the day, he said water supply was still normal, “considering that the demand during September until the first rain of the season is annually the highest and therefore low pressure during peak demand times”.
Dlamini assured the dual controller will be installed again to automatically reduce the pressure from 22:00 until 04:00 as previously.
