One of the 75 water tankers filling a JoJo tank at a location in Randburg on 13 December 2024. Picture: Councillor Nicole van Dyk
As the city’s taps run dry over the long weekend, Johannesburg Water will be providing alternative supply through stationary and roaming water trucks in some areas.
Johannesburg Water has 75 roaming water tankers at their disposal to fill 150 JoJo tanks scattered around the suburbs.
Two major pump stations are undergoing maintenance from Friday until Monday, disrupting the water supply for five of the seven municipal regions under the City of Johannesburg (CoJ).
The Eikenhof system will be pumping at 20% capacity from 7am on Friday 13 December until Monday night, 16 December.
The 86-hour outage will affect Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Brixton and the Johannesburg CBD.
Johannesburg Water stated that the system will be supplying normally for the first 24 hours but following the initial window, residents will have low pressure or no water at all.
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Residents served by the Zwartkoppies system will have their supply reduced to 70% capacity from 5am on Saturday until late on Sunday night.
During the first eight hours of the 36-hour outage, there will be no pumping at Zwartkoppies, whereafter it will revert to 70% capacity.
As with Eikenhof, the later stages of the outage will see residents with low pressure or taps filled with air.
Zwartkoppies services areas from Berea to Wemmer Pan, Aeroton, Naturena and Orlando East.
The work being done at Eikenhof is necessary to separate engine rooms that were designed for lower demand.
“Currently, Eikenhof has three engine rooms that were designed to be interrelated. With the increasing demand, there is a need to make the engine rooms independent and increase their flexibility,” stated Rand Water.
The shutting down of the Zwartkoppies pump station is to repair a leak at the Zuikerbosch water treatment plant.
JoJo tanks or stationary water tankers can be found at the following locations:
Locations for other parts of Randburg and Roodepoort have not yet been released.
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