Taps still dry for some Joburg residents two weeks after Rand Water maintenance completed
Johannesburg Water is working to remove the airlock, while residents continue to experience shortages.
Johannesburg Water believes that an airlock in the Illovo system may be preventing water from reaching residents' taps.Johannesburg Water executives will meet with ward councillors in Illovo on Monday morning to discuss the mitigation strategies the entity will implement to boost water supply. The maintenance ended with the Palmiet pump station - which supplies Sandton, Midrand, South Hills and Alexandra Park in Johannesburg - on 31 July, but the reservoirs and towers it supplies are still recovering.
On Sunday, Johannesburg Water said its teams would reconfigure the Sandton system to shift water to the Illovo one.Preliminary investigations point to the existence of an airlock on the system that may be blocking water from reaching the Illovo reservoir complex.
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