Tshwane’s eastern suburbs hit by water outage after pump failure

Thousands of Pretoria residents woke on Tuesday morning to no water after a pump system on a city reservoir failed the night before.

By early on Tuesday morning‚ the Elardus Park water reservoir was critically low with ward councillors sending out messages on community watch groups to alert people to the shortages.

The reservoir supplies water to the city’s eastern suburbs‚ which are home to numerous schools‚ hospitals and clinics.

A message sent by the City of Tshwane to all ward councillors in the affected areas said that a panel at the pump station feeding Elardus Park reservoir had failed.

“There is currently no supply to Elardus Park reservoir. Our electro-mechanical team worked throughout the night but could not resolve the problem‚” it said.

The city said experts had been called to the site on Tuesday morning to try resolve the problem.

“The Elardus Park reservoir level is critically low (less than 10%) hence low pressures‚ some areas will start being without water. The whole of Elardus Park and some parts of Wingate Park will be affected. Water tankers are being arranged meanwhile.”

Several ward councillors said the areas affected stretched across the city’s eastern region‚ and also included Moreleta Park.

“Its a lot of people who have been affected. Hopefully this get resolved soon‚” said a Tshwane metro official.

Pretoria East Hospital said it had fortunately not been affected by the outage. – TMG Digital/The Times