Residents of the north-western areas of Johannesburg can expect their water supply to drop as demand increases on Tuesday evening.
This is according to Joburg Water’s acting communication manager‚ David Sibiya.
Joburg Water had scheduled a water interruption in order to carry out maintenance at one of its reservoirs in Honeydew‚ west of Johannesburg.
The interruptions were due to start at 9 am on Tuesday and end on Wednesday at 3pm. But when Times Media visited the Honeydew cluster areas during the course of Tuesday all of them still had running water at optimal pressure.
But Sibiya said the water could run out by Tuesday evening as the demand grew.
“All those [affected] areas are still feeding off the huge reservoir. But that reservoir will gradually be depleted because no new water is coming in to replace that going out from it‚” Sibiya said.
The areas that will be affected include Honeydew ‚ Northgate‚ Northriding‚ Bloubosrand‚ Mogale City‚ Nooitgedacht‚ Lanseria‚ Malibongwe Ridge‚ Malatjie informal settlement‚ Olivedale Clinic‚ Noordhang‚ Jackal creek‚ Northlands Business and Décor Park. Other areas affected include Cosmo City and informal settlements like Zandspruit ‚ Itsoseng and Kya Sands.
In 2014 the population of this cluster stood at 1.17-million people.
The City of Johannesburg has made provisions for the cut-off by placing 2‚500 litre water tanks in and around the affected region.
The Netcare Olivedale Hospital‚ which is situated in Olivedale‚ said it continued to function normally despite the current interruption in water supply to the area.
“Interruptions in water supply to our hospitals around the country do occur from time to time and Netcare makes provision for such emergencies. We have a robust major incident programme in place to ensure that operations at our facilities are minimally impacted by such incidents.
“The hospital was informed that there would be an interruption in the supply of water to the Olivedale area beforehand. Netcare immediately implemented our major incident programme‚ dispatching technicians to the hospital to ensure it would have an uninterrupted supply of water over this period‚” the hospital said.
It added that the hospital had a bulk emergency water tank‚ which should be sufficient to see it through any disruption in water supply.
“This water tank is regularly replenished by the City of Johannesburg. We are in ongoing contact with the City‚ and they will replenish supplies should this become necessary.
“As an additional back-up we have a private water supplier that can provide us with all the water we require via a bulk water tanker within two hours. The hospital can furthermore call on the assistance of the Fire Department if this were to become necessary.”
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Water supplies in Honeydew area expected to drop as demand increases
Residents of the north-western areas of Johannesburg can expect their water supply to drop as demand increases on Tuesday evening.
This is according to Joburg Water’s acting communication manager‚ David Sibiya.
Joburg Water had scheduled a water interruption in order to carry out maintenance at one of its reservoirs in Honeydew‚ west of Johannesburg.
The interruptions were due to start at 9 am on Tuesday and end on Wednesday at 3pm. But when Times Media visited the Honeydew cluster areas during the course of Tuesday all of them still had running water at optimal pressure.
But Sibiya said the water could run out by Tuesday evening as the demand grew.
“All those [affected] areas are still feeding off the huge reservoir. But that reservoir will gradually be depleted because no new water is coming in to replace that going out from it‚” Sibiya said.
The areas that will be affected include Honeydew ‚ Northgate‚ Northriding‚ Bloubosrand‚ Mogale City‚ Nooitgedacht‚ Lanseria‚ Malibongwe Ridge‚ Malatjie informal settlement‚ Olivedale Clinic‚ Noordhang‚ Jackal creek‚ Northlands Business and Décor Park. Other areas affected include Cosmo City and informal settlements like Zandspruit ‚ Itsoseng and Kya Sands.
In 2014 the population of this cluster stood at 1.17-million people.
The City of Johannesburg has made provisions for the cut-off by placing 2‚500 litre water tanks in and around the affected region.
The Netcare Olivedale Hospital‚ which is situated in Olivedale‚ said it continued to function normally despite the current interruption in water supply to the area.
“Interruptions in water supply to our hospitals around the country do occur from time to time and Netcare makes provision for such emergencies. We have a robust major incident programme in place to ensure that operations at our facilities are minimally impacted by such incidents.
“The hospital was informed that there would be an interruption in the supply of water to the Olivedale area beforehand. Netcare immediately implemented our major incident programme‚ dispatching technicians to the hospital to ensure it would have an uninterrupted supply of water over this period‚” the hospital said.
It added that the hospital had a bulk emergency water tank‚ which should be sufficient to see it through any disruption in water supply.
“This water tank is regularly replenished by the City of Johannesburg. We are in ongoing contact with the City‚ and they will replenish supplies should this become necessary.
“As an additional back-up we have a private water supplier that can provide us with all the water we require via a bulk water tanker within two hours. The hospital can furthermore call on the assistance of the Fire Department if this were to become necessary.”
TMG Digital/The Times
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