Rand Water Shutdown is all about the areas of Rand water outages.
The areas that will be affected in the City of Johannesburg will be the western parts of Joburg, the Randburg area, the Roodepoort area, and certain areas within Soweto. “There will be interruptions but it is important to indicate that Rand Water purifies around 650 mega million litres a day.
The Palmiet system supplies water to Midrand region, Diepsloot, Linmeyer, Southills, and Klipfontein View through Ekurhuleni municipality. There will be a 30% reduction of normal water supply.
Johannesburg Water does not anticipate water supply disruption, as all Rand Water reservoirs, supplied from the Palmiet system, will be filled to capacity. Most of the work will be completed during the night when demand is at its lowest. The maintenance needs to be done during the low peak season (winter) and will prepare Rand Water for the high water demand season (summer).
Johannesburg Water will monitor affected water supply into affected infrastructure and provide updates to customers as the work progresses.
Areas that will be affected during the outage:
1. Cornelius Street: Parts of Weltevreden park and Randparkrif and Allensnek.
2. Weltevreden High pressure and Weltevreden High Pressure Bypass: Amarosa, Honeydew Manor, Honeypark, Laserpark, Little Falls, Poortview, Radiokop, Strubensvalley, Ruimsig, Wilgeheuwel, Tres Jolie, Constantia Kloof, Randparkridge, Allensnek and Weltevreden park
3. Commando road: Avon Street direct: Riverlea and extensions
4. Honeydew reservoir: Parts of Zandspruit, Laserpark, Olivenhout, Honeydew and Extensions
Customers in the higher lying areas will be affected by no water. Customers are urged to use
water sparingly.
Although the emergency shutdown is estimated for three (3) hours, the restoration of the
affected network, may take up to six (6) hours.
Johannesburg Water apologises to customers for the inconvenience caused and thanks
customers in advance for their patience and understanding.