Many Johannesburg residents will have to rely on water from Johannesburg water tankers during this week’s Rand water outage.
- Johannesburg Water has updated the list of areas that will be affected by the Rand Water outage.
- The outage will start at 19:00 on Tuesday and end at 05:00 on Friday.
- During an outage, regions will experience varying hours of low water or no water supply.
As Rand Water’s 58-hour water shutdown begins on Tuesday evening, Johannesburg residents not on the original list of affected areas should look to an updated version of Johannesburg Water as it emerged that more suburbs than first thought would be affected by the outage.
The planned outage is scheduled to start at 19:00 on Tuesday and end at 05:00 on Friday. This will give the larger water supplier 58 hours to install two valves between pipelines A19 and B14.
Johannesburg Water, which purchases water from Rand Water for distribution to the city, has updated its list of affected areas. The outage disrupts five booster stations, which help pump water from Rand’s water tanks to reservoirs that feed the suburbs.
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This expanded list is available on Joburg Water websitewhich was idle for parts of Tuesday as throngs of residents made a last-minute check.
Johannesburg Water spokesman Nomboso Shabalala said residents would not be affected for the same number of hours.
People who live in Orange Farm and Innerdale [serviced by] The Daleside Booster Station was the least affected. The work on Daleside must be completed in eight hours.
But those who live in Randburg and Roodepoort, [serviced by] The Eikenhof Booster station will be affected for a full 58 hours.”
During an outage, Johannesburg Water will attempt to make the water in its reserves last by reducing the water supply during the downtime.
Low-lying areas may have low pressure to no water but only intermittently or at irregular intervals [during maintenance]. The higher areas will have no water at all.”
The following booster stations will be affected by the power outage:
Daleside Booster Station
The water supply in areas under the Daleside Booster Station will be reduced by 50% for eight hours from 19:00 on Tuesday. The water supply must be fully restored by 19:00 on Wednesday.
The affected areas are updated below.
Blackhead booster station
Districts that fall under the Zwartkopjes Booster Station will reduce their water supply by 40% for 24 hours from 19:00 on Tuesday. The water supply must be fully restored by 19:00 next week on Monday.
The affected areas are updated below.
Eikenhof Booster Station
The water supply in the areas under the Zwartkopjes Booster Station will be reduced by 24% for 58 hours from 19:00 on Tuesday. The water supply must be fully restored by 19:00 on 24 July.
The affected areas are updated in the three slides below:
Many Johannesburg residents will have to rely on water from Johannesburg water tankers during this week’s Rand water outage.