The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has initiated an action plan to deal with summer floods and Orlando East is one of the areas that was identified as a flood hotspot.
JRA’s Flood Management and Storm Water Plan has three elements namely, proactive maintenance that occurs before the rains, maintenance activities during rains, and flood management activities at hotspot areas on the day of the flooding.
According to JRA, high rainfall patterns over the past few years has significantly impacted Johannesburg’s road network system and supporting infrastructure.
“The City has identified and mapped high flood risk areas, and developed mitigating plans which include implementation tactics that proactively address hotspot areas.
“We have duly inspected recurring blockages in the areas which are termed as ‘flooding hotspots”, we are monitoring low level bridges, and dangerous river crossings, as well as fencing off dangerous open storm water channels and canals,” said Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) Managing Director, Skhumbuzo Macozoma.
Macozoma added that JRA has also established regional standby teams who will be deployed as additional resources in the event of emergencies.
Residents and road users are encouraged to report all road and storm water related emergencies during flooding directly to the 24 hour JRA Regional Standby Teams on the following contact number: 060 960 0779.
