Power woes set to stay?
Some Crystal Park and Rynfield residents may face sporadic power supply for up to three months, according to Ward 24 Clr Stefanie Ueckermann.
She said the two suburbs are suffering the effects of a damaged transformer at a substation on Pretoria Road.
The substation was damaged in a fire in January, and again earlier this month.
Several people contacted the City Times and questioned why they have intermittent electricity supply in Crystal Park and Cloverdene.
Ueckermann said she was informed that only one of the two transformers at the Pretoria Road facility is operational.
This, along with aged cables, results in power surges, which leads to areas being plunged into darkness, according to Ueckermann.
The councillor said, to her knowledge, a new transformer has not been ordered from China.
She said it would take three months for the transformer to be delivered.
“I am not happy with this,” said Ueckermann.
“They are not giving me the turnaround time or they say it’s a cable fault and they are working on it.”
The City Times received the following unedited comments on Facebook on the evening of June 28:
Chantelle Sweeting Hyland: “Tjello street, Rynfield. 05:07 again no electricity. Would be nice if the council would tell us what’s really going on….what about the frail care centres here? We pay for a service but don’t get answers!”
Debra Yvonne Koekemoer: “For the past week and half we had alot of interuptions. Some days it would be 3 time a day for about 10min at a time or it would be anything from 1 hour to 6 hours. We live in Park str, Benoni.”
Pankanayi Baxter Masiiwa: “Chief Luthuli frm 11pm last nite to 11am. Then tonite frm 7pm to 7 40pm.”
Michelle Knott: “Lessing street- Rynfield. Woke up to no electricity and going to sleep with no electricity.”
The metro was asked for comment at 11.55am.
No comment had been received at the time of publishing.
