Johannesburg Water (JW) would like to thank the residents of the City of Johannesburg for their unwavering patience throughout the Rand Water planned maintenance.
The JW systems that were affected by the planned interruption have recovered and are currently supplying areas at normal capacity. The expected improvements in reservoir levels should continue during the course of today and estimated to be back to normality within the next 48 hours.
The increase in the average flow into the Rand Water Commando system has shown significant improvement and continues assisting in building capacity into the Brixton/ Hursthill/ Crosby reservoirs.
Alternative water supply is focused on the Hursthill supply zone.
Mobile water tankers are providing water in the following areas:
The Johannesburg Water systems affected by the Rand Water planned interruption have made significant improvement since yesterday and continue to recover. The expected improvements in reservoir levels should continue during the course of today and estimated to be back to normality within the next 72 hours.
Eikenhof System:
The supply from Eikenhof pump station is at full capacity at 1200 Mega litres with uninterrupted increase of 2500 kilolitres per hour into the Commando system. The increased flow continues to assist in building capacity into the Brixton/ Hursthill/ Crosby reservoirs in building capacity into the Brixton/ Hursthill/ Crosby reservoirs.
All other reservoirs and towers that were impacted during the RW outage, have recovered and are supplying areas at normal capacity.
Alternate water supply is focused on the Hursthill supply zone that have been negatively impacted.
Mobile water tankers are providing water in the following areas:
*Newclare
* Westbury
* Claremont
* Coronationville
* Sophiatown
* Westdene
Johannesburg Water urges customers to continue to reduce consumption as much as possible to assist with recovery of the system.
The Johannesburg Water systems affected by the Rand Water planned interruption have recovered by 80% and we expect a full recovery soon as the system continues to build up capacity.
Pumping from the Rand Water Eikenhof pump station is at full capacity of 1200 Megalitres since midday yesterday. There has been an increase in the average flow of water into the Commando system at 2500 kilolitres per hour. The increased flow will further assist in building capacity into the Brixton/ Hursthill/ Crosby reservoirs.
Reservoirs/ Towers that are stable but at low levels:
* All reservoirs and towers in Soweto area
* The majority of reservoirs and towers in Roodepoort/ Randburg area
* Reservoirs in Lenasia area
* Yeoville reservoir
* Crosby reservoir
* Eagle Nest reservoir
Reservoirs/ Tower at critical levels
Customers in these supply areas have no water or intermittent supply.
*Hursthill reservoirs
* Crown Gardens reservoir and tower
The following systems have noted recovery:
*Johannesburg Water’s Hector Norris pump station continues to operate at an optimal level.
* Corriemoor reservoir was impacted due to reduced supply, however there is improvement noted as the system pressurizes.
* Brixton reservoir is operating at 50% capacity
* Brixton Tower is operating at normal capacity
* Yeoville reservoir is operating at normal capacity
* Aeroton reservoir and tower
* Helderkruin reservoir
* Northcliff reservoir
* Forest Hill tower
* Florida North tower
* South Hills tower
* Linden reservoir and tower
* Waterval tower
* Quellerina tower
* Constantia tower
* Naturena reservoir
Mobile water tankers are providing water in the following areas:
Alternate water supply is focused on the Hursthill and other critical supply zones that have been negatively impacted.
*Newclare
* Westbury
* Claremont
* Coronationville
* Sophiatown
* Westdene
Johannesburg Water urges customers to continue to reduce consumption in order to prevent further strain on the system. Reduced consumption is assisting in the recovery period.
Rand Water B 11 Update: Affected Johannesburg Water systems
Since the commissioning of the Rand Water (RW) B 11 line, the RW Vereeniging purification works is currently running at full capacity as from yesterday. This has positively impacted on Rand Water’s Zwartkoppies system.
Zwartkoppies System:
The increased capacity into the Rand Water’s Forest Hill reservoir and Johannesburg Water’s Yeoville reservoir, has improved supply into Johannesburg Water’s Eagle Nest and Aeroton reservoirs. The improvement also allowed Johannesburg Water to start pumping into its Forest Hill and South Hills Water Towers. The Crown Gardens reservoir is unfortunately still at a critical level.
Eikenhof System:
This system is running at a reduced capacity of (1000Ml) from early this morning. This however improved to full capacity (1200Ml) from around 10:00. This allows Rand Water to build capacity into their Meredale reservoir as well as into Johannesburg Water’s Commando and Randburg/ Roodepoort systems. Rand Water’s Meredale reservoir is still at critical levels, which impacts the bulk supply into the JW Commando system ( Brixton, Crosby and Hursthill). Until we are able to sustain an average flow at 2500 kl per hour into the Commando system, the full recovery continues to be a challenge. Currently the flow into the Commando system is 1000 kl/hour. At this stage we are recovering the Crosby and Brixton systems. The Brixton tower is normalizing and the reservoir is operating at 50% capacity.
The Linden One Reservoir and Tower, Waterval Tower, Quellerina Tower, Florida North Tower and Constantia towers also still remains empty due to reduced supply from Rand Water Eikenhof system but with the full capacity supply since 10:00 will most likely improve in the later hours of today.
The reservoirs and towers in the Soweto Areas continue to be at a stable but low levels. This system is not severely compromised but is in the process of slow recovery.
Johannesburg Water is providing alternate supply to affected areas where feasible. We urge customers to reduce consumption as the systems gain capacity and recover.
Johannesburg Water reservoirs are currently stable
The Johannesburg Water reservoirs supplied by the Rand Water Eikenhof pump system that are affected by the water supply reduction are currently at a stable state.
We however anticipate that the Brixton/Hursthill/Crosby reservoirs will be affected by the reduced supply, and subsequently placed stationary water tanks in areas supplied by those systems. The supply to Rahima Moosa hospital and Helen Joseph hospital will be provided through an alternate feed to ensure that these critical customers are catered for during the outage.
Johannesburg Water will provide water to other affected areas as water supply is reduced through mobile water tankers. We are receiving regular updates from Rand Water on progress made at their site.
Stationary Water Tank placement in areas supplied by Brixton/Hursthill/Crosby reservoirs:
1. Crown wood Road(Crown)
2. No 22 Bonanza Street (Fordsburg Clinic)
3. Cnr Link road and Aalwyn road Riverlea Old Age Home )
4. Coronado and Avon Streets ( Riverlea Recreation Centre)
5. First Avenue (Vrededorp Primary School)
6. No 3 Russ Road (Vrededorp)
7. Cnr High and Mercury (Brixton Community Centre)
8. Cnr Ingelby and Churchill Avenue (Crosby Clinic)
9. Coronationville (Slovo Informal Settlement)
10. Cnr Price and Welman Street (Newclare)
11. Charls Street (Kathrada Informal Settlement)
12. Cnr Rex and Plantation Road (Montclare Danie Van Zyl Recreation Centre)
13. Cnr 6th and West (Mayfair)
14. Plot No 87 4th Avenue (Mayfair)
15. No 24 2nd Avenue (Mayfair)
16. No 106th Avenue(Mayfair)
17. No 29 Bird Street (Mayfair)
18. No 62 Crown (Fordsburg)
19. Central Road next to Market Restaurant (Mayfair)
20. Cnr Carr and Gardens (Fordsburg)
21. No 21 Central Road( Mayfair)
22. No 40 Mint RD (Fordsburg)
23. No 117 Moira Avenue(Crosby)
24. No 106 8th Avenue(Mayfair)
25. Plot No 159 7th Avenue (Mayfair)
Stationary tanks placed in other suburbs in Central Region: (South Hills, Kibler park, Booysens, Crown Gardens, Hillbrow, Newtown, Southdale, Goldreef City and Ormonde)
26. Cnr Kenneth Gardens Summer Crescent (Kibler park Clinic)
27. Bellavista Roa and Busshau St (Bellavista Clinic)
28. Cnr Herismith RD and Estantia Avenue (South hills Clinic)
29. Cnr Geneva and Harrrismith Rd ( South Hill Old Age Home)
30. Cnr Friars Hill RD and Hekla Rd (South rand Hospital)
31. Cnr West Turffontein and Turf Club (Bellavista Old age Home)
32. Cnr Tirae St and Ring Road (Crown Gardens Old age Home)
33. Cnr Ulster Crescent and Mourne Avenue( Crown Gardens Clinic)
34. View Street Informal Settlement ( Booysens)
35. Eloff Stree Informal Settlement ( Booysens)
36. Henderson Street (Roseacre)
37. City and Suburban RD( City and Surburban)
38. Cnr Cathrine and Alexandra St(Berea)
39. Cnr Pretoria and Claredon Street( Hillbrow)
40. MTN Taxi rank (JHB)
41. Bree Taxi Rank (JHB)
42. Cnr Mirriam Makeba and Ferreirasdorp Street ( Newtown)
43. Cnr Kitty and Donald Street (Chrisville)
44. Cnr Third Rd and Landsbourough Street( Southdale)
45. No 7 Data Crescent ( Gold Reef City)
46. No 1524 Lake wood( Ormonde)
47. Cnr Sand wood and Sunni Musallah ( Ormonde)
