44-hours worth of water disruptions hitting parts of Cape Town this week
Areas across Cape Town will be subject to water supply disruptions due to planned maintenance.
The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate said that critical work will be done on the water supply infrastructure, which will benefit customers in the future.
The Westlake Industrial Areas will be hit with water outages as a faulty control valve will be replaced on the water supply main to the reservoir supplying water to the area.
The water pipeline will be shut off from 09h00 on Monday, 29 May 2023, to 11h00 on Tuesday, 30 May 2023 – a 26-hour period.
The city said an alternate water supply will be rerouted to the area but warned customers that they may experience lower-than-usual water pressure over the period.
Moreover, high-lying parts of Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, and Mandalay right up to Bay View will be hit with a 31-hour water maintenance period.
The city said there would be a dummy shutoff on the 1220 mm diameter water supply main from 09h00 on Monday, 29 May 2023 to 16h00 on Tuesday, 30 May 2023.
During the shutoff, the city will also send an alternate water supply to the area. Still, residents, like in the Westlake area, may experience lower-than-usual pressure during that time.
The maintenance is in preparation for a full 13-hour shutoff on Saturday, 3 June 2023, which will last from 09h00 until 20h00 – the Westlake Industrial Areas will be unaffected by this outage.
The Saturday shutoff will allow the maintenance team to replace a leaking coupling on the pipeline, the city said.
In both instances, the city requested that residents reduce their water consumption.
Thus, the high-lying parts of Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, and Mandalay up to Bay View will be subject to a combined 44 hours of water disruptions this week.
The city said that the work forms part of the Water and Sanitation Directorate’s proactive infrastructure maintenance and upgrade programme, which aims to ensure future water supply by addressing the problem of unaccounted-for water.
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