The City of Cape Town (COCT) has announced that the Faure Water Treatment Plant, which is one of the major treatment plants supplying the City, will be offline from Friday, November 19 at 12 am until Monday, November 22.
According to the COCT, this is to facilitate work taking place on the 2400mm diameter Faure bulk water pipeline. The City said arrangements have already been made to step up production at the Blackheath and Steenbras Water Treatment Plants to compensate while Faure is offline so that residents should not experience any significant disruption of water supply as a result.
“The work involving the insertion of the T-piece on the 2400mm diameter bulk water pipeline forms part of the City of Cape Town’s R162 million Baden Powell Drive bulk water pipeline project.
“The new infrastructure, currently under construction, will be linked to the 2400mm diameter pipeline via this T-piece to strengthen the water supply and boost water pressure in the eastern sections of Khayelitsha, which have seen rapid growth recently.
“The only areas impacted by this work are the Cape Film Studios and Amazon off Baden-Powell Drive, but they will be serviced by water tankers during this period,” the City said.
In the meantime, the Water and Sanitation Department also intends to replace a faulty cross-connection valve linking the 760mm pipeline to the 2400mm bulk water pipeline. This might result in lower water pressure in the Eerste River area between Van Riebeeck, Strand Road and Faure Road, and the areas of De Wijnlanden and surrounds next to Baden Powell Drive.
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