Over the weekend of 22 to 23 July 2023 the NMBM experienced five burst pipeline conveying water from Nooitgedagt Water Treatment Works to the Westerns parts of NMBM as well as parts of Kariega and Despatch.
Following the incidents, repair work has progressed, however there remains two repairs that are critically required in order to allow the Motherwell and Stanford Booster pump stations to be restarted.
Essentially approximately 75 km of bulk water pipelines ranging from 400 mm to 800 mm diameter are affected, making this significant repair work that needs to be conducted.
In addition, this has caused the depletion of the storage reservoirs that have been generally full over the last two months as a result of the augmentation projects that came on-streams.
Indications are that the repairs will go into the night before the pipes can be gradually filled up again.
It is foreseen that the water will only be up to full supply by Thursday, 27 July 2023.
During this time the NMBM is deploying water trucks as the trucks positions are as follows for now:
- Nangoza Jebe Hall, New Brighton
- Hunters Spar
- Mamma Park Checkers
- Ext 35 roaming
- Barcelona/Ward 10 & Malabar.
More positions will be communicated in due course.
The Metro wishes to apologise for the inconvenienced caused.
NMB Communications
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