Update: Technicians to work throughout night

Residents affected by the water outage caused by the damaged water pipe in Constantia Kloof should have water by tomorrow.

According to Johannesburg Water’s (JW) Twitter page, technicians are busy securing the area for repairs to start.

“Repairs will begin this evening and continue throughout the night. We expect repairs to be completed tomorrow,” the post read.

Read initial article here: More suburbs to be affected by water outage

But, even though this is good news, JW is reiterating that they cannot provide an exact timeline for completion of repairs and will only be able to provide customers with an estimated time of completion as well as an estimated time of restoration tomorrow morning (15 August).

JW apologised for the inconvenience caused by the incident and reminded residents that water tankers would still be available at the following locations:

• Hillfox Power Centre

• The garage at the corner of Jim Fouché Road and Constantia Drive

• The Pick ‘n Pay on CR Swart Drive

• The garage at the corner of CR Swart Drive and Ouklip Road

• The garage at the corner of Wilgerood and Ouklip Roads

• The Fire Station at the corner of Ontdekkers Road and Golf Club Terrace

• At Builders Warehouse on the corner of Jim Fouché and Hendrik Potgieter Roads

• Corner of Boerneef Road and Ruhama Drive, Heldekruin

• Corner of Mimetes and Wilde Amandel Avenues, Roodekraans

• Corner of Jim Fouché and Pranticole Roads, Allen’s Nek

• Checkers Hyper at Constantia Kloof

• Florida Park Shopping Centre, corner Daniel Malan Avenue and Jan Smuts Drive, Florida North

• Corner Seventh Avenue and Goldman Street, Florida

• Flora Centre, corner of Ontdekkers Road and Conrad Street, Florida

• Outside Berghof Flats, 25 Oosthuizen Street, Florida Hills

• Ons Huis Old Age Home, 110 Madeline Street, Florida

• Waterval Village, corner Hendrik Potgieter and 3rd Street, Florida Glen.

Members of the Kruin Community Voluntary Association have also opened their hearts, and have made 13 boreholes available where people can get water for free, should they be unable to be assisted by the water tankers. The boreholes are available at the following locations:

• Linda at 490 Banket Avenue, Helderkruin

• Eugene at 503 Amatola Avenue, Helderkruin

• Christo at 505 Amatola Avenue, Helderkruin

• Tieka at 506 Amatola Avenue, Helderkruin

• Steve at 507 Amatola Avenue, Helderkruin

• Trevor at 485 Impala Avenue, Helderkruin

• Johan at 506 Impala Avenue, Helderkruin

• Wally at 494 Chironia Street, Helderkruin

• Alec at 512 Chironia Street, Helderkruin

• Ralph at 35 Dion Street, Helderkruin

• Dawie at 69 Boerneef Street, Helderkruin (after 6pm)

• Vinesh at 470 Koedoebessie Street, Helderkruin

• Streamline at 2883 Albertina Sisulu Road, Roodepoort.

Vumatel and Fibrehoods have also made a 15 000 litre tanker available to the community, which will be placed in the Pick ‘n Pay car park on CR Swart Drive.

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