4 March 2024 – 22:30
Customer Notice
Johannesburg Water’s system affected by power outage at Rand Water’s Eikenhof pump station
There has been an incident on the City Power’s system that feeds onto the Rand Water’s Eikenhof pump station. The incident happened at 20:00 this evening. Consequently, operations at the pump station have been disrupted, leading to no supply from Eikenhof pump station to Johannesburg Water’s system. The system supplies predominately Soweto, Randburg/Roodepoort, Johannesburg South, and Central.
Johannesburg Water’s systems that are affected:
• Commando System (Crosby reservoir, Brixton reservoir and tower and Hursthill 1 & 2 reservoirs)
• Johannesburg Central (Aeroton reservoir and tower, Crown Gardens tower 1 & 2 and reservoir and Eagles Nest reservoir including Alan Manor and Naturena reservoirs)
• Soweto (Chiawelo reservoir, Diepkloof reservoir, Doornkop West reservoir, Jabulani reservoir, meadowlands reservoir, Orlando East reservoir, Power Park reservoir. Zondi reservoir and tower and Protea Glen reservoir)
• Waterval and Weltevreden (Blairgowrie reservoir, Boschkop reservoir, Constantia tower, Cosmo City reservoir, Florida North tower, Helderkruin reservoir and tower, Honeydew reservoir and tower, Horizon tower, Kensington-B reservoir and tower, Linden 1 reservoir and tower, Linden 2 reservoir, Quellerina tower, Randpark Ridge reservoir, Waterval tower, Olivedale reservoir, Robertsville reservoir, and Witpoortjie reservoir and tower)
Johannesburg Water will throttle (reduce pressure) outlets of the reservoirs to delay the impact of no water. Further updates on the recovery of the impacted infrastructure will be provided.
Customers are urged to adopt water-saving measures to reduce the high consumption and aid in the recovery of the systems.
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Issued by Johannesburg Water Communication and Marketing