Rand Water media relations manager Justice Mohale told the City Times this morning that the outage occurred at the Eikenhof Pumping Station, on Monday, at 3am.
He said Rand Water was unable to pump water to its reservoirs during the power outage.
As a result, parts of Johannesburg and Benoni suburbs (Crystal Park, Cloverdene and Fairleads) have been without water or experienced a sporadic flow since Friday.
Mohale said water was pumped into the empty reservoirs on Monday afternoon, at maximum levels.
The media relations manager added that water levels in the reservoirs should ideally be normalised in seven hours, but that this has been complicated due to the high demand, caused by the warm temperatures.
Rand Water is still experiencing a backlog as a result of the downtime period.
Mohale said water should be restored to the affected areas by the weekend, which would be a level of 60 to 80 per cent water levels in the reservoir.
The City Times is still waiting for comment from Ekurhuleni and to establish if water trucks will be stationed in affected areas.
Read the previous articles here:
- https://www.citizen.co.za/benoni-city-times/189861/no-answers-yet-to-water-shortage/
- https://www.citizen.co.za/benoni-city-times/189875/empty-reservoir-possibly-to-blame-for-water-shortage/
Ok so the power was out on monday what about the week before that ????
There have been issues the entire year. No notifications or apologies. The Fat Lards managing these projects have depleted the recourses, spare pumps and parts. All we hear are excuses and departments blaming each other.Forever negotiating with no answers and conclusions. What happened to taking responsibility.To the management of these basic recourses: DO WHAT YOU GET PAID TO DO!
We had no water in the Morehill area on Friday 12th September and very little on Saturday 13th – it is now the 17th and once again we have no water. What is really going on here? Surely a 12 hour electricity failure shouldn’t cause almost a week of sporadic water supplies. Earlier in the year we kept experiencing terrible flow or no water at all in the same area. I think Ekurhuleni better look at their supply in general…
CAN YOU PLEASE SUPPLY US WITH WATER. MY METER IS RUNNING BUT WE HAVE NO WATER SINCE THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014. I AM PAYING FOR WHAT AGAIN??? WE WERE ADVISE THERE IS WATER TANKS IN CRYSTAL PARK. EXCUSE ME THERE IS NOTHING AT THE SPAR OR POLICE STATION OR EBOTSE. I WAS TOLD THE WATER WILL RESUME BACK TO NORMAL BY THE END OF TODAY (17/09/2014)!!! PLEASE ADVISE WHAT IS YOUR END OF TODAY?? PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO WATER. PATHETIC, USELESS!!!!!!!!!
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NO WATER IN CLOVERDENE, SINCE WEDNESDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2014. COULD YOU PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH WATER. CAN YOU ALL PLEASE START DOING YOUR JOBS THAT YOU GET PAID TO DO…
no water. could we please have some water. could you please do your job, as you are getting paid for it. or should I show you how to do your job.
water water water water please can we have water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please we have no water. I have a huge water bill, but no water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ek is verstom! Wat is die eintlike waarheid? Die Benoni City Times kry ‘n antwoord anders as wanneer ons bel!! Elke antwoord is verskillend! Die verskillende antwoorde sover is:
1. Rand Water kon nie water in die reservoir in pomp nie a.g.v ‘n krag onderbreking.
2. Die pyp wat van Rand Water na die reservoir gaan het ‘n lek, die word tans vervang.
3. Ekurhuleni het nie hul rekening aan Rand Water betaal nie, dus is die water gesny.
4. Daar is ‘n staking wat plaas vind.
Hier is geen water tenks wat vir ons water verskaf nie!
Die water tekort is nie net nou nie maar is die hele jaar al aan en af maar dis nou die ergste sover!
Ons moet vir water vra by bure wat ‘n swembad het net sodat ons die toilet kan flush en darm kan skottelgoed was!
Ons het nie vervoer nie en dus moet ons met ander mense reel vir water net sodat ons darm kan kos maak en koffie en tee!
Dit is geheel onaanvaarbaar dat ons so moet wag tot die naweek toe vir Rand Water om weer die water beskikbaar te maak!!!
dis ‘n boll storie!!!!!!!!!! hoekom het ander gedeeltes van crystal park water en die ander gedeelte het nie??? gebruik hulle verskillende reservoirs, hoeveel is daar nou eintlik in ‘n klein gemeenskap soos crystal park? of kry een gedeelte water van Rand water en die ander van ERWAT? HULLE IS PATETIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ABSOLUTE IDIOTS power failure Monday but what about the days of no water before Monday’s no water situation…what about the pump story for rand water that wasn’t working properly by not pumping water into the reservoir last week – they used that line last week already.. also what about these idiots supplying and laying the pipes to the new town house development on eighth street in cloverdene they have broken the pipes on numerous occasions…