The final phase of Rand Water's infrastructure maintenance project the project will focus on the Palmiet and Mapleton stations, resulting in a total of 117 hours of water outages. Picture: iStock
Rand Water has entered its final week of maintenance and upgrades to main water systems in Gauteng with a total of 117 hours of water outages ahead for areas in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Ekurhuleni.
The infrastructure maintenance programme to pipelines and pump stations kicked off on 22 June, with the third and final phase estimated to run until Monday, 29 July.
The next project will be augmentation and flexibility maintenance of the Mapleton system on Friday, 26 July, which is expected to run for 77 hours over the coming weekend.
This will then lead to the replacement of defective valves at plants impacting the Palmiet system on Monday, 29 July, which will run for 40 hours.
Even though maintenance work is expected to be completed on time, local water utilities have warned that it may take longer for pressure to return to normal.
Joburg Water alerted residents in Midrand on Monday (22 July) that some systems are still in recovery following the second phase of the project in mid-July.
Residents have been urged to keep an eye on their municipalities’ respective social media and news channels for information on the various measures that have been put in place.
On 29 July 2024, the system will be pumping at 76% for 40 hours, affecting the following areas:
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The City of Tshwane said its reservoirs would be impacted by both the Palmiet and Mapleton maintenance.
This means that suburbs in the city can expect to be impacted by the Palmiet outages on 29 July, as well as the durations listed above in terms of the Mapleton outages between 26 and 29 July.
The full list of impacted reservoirs and suburbs is extensive and can be found HERE.
On 29 July, the system will be down for 77 hours, affecting the following areas:
On 29 July, the system will be down for 40 hours, affecting the following areas:
A detailed breakdown of extensions and specifics can be found HERE.
