Nelson Mandela Bay Metro
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s Mayoral Committee Member for Infrastructure and Engineering, Councillor Mongameli Bobani, spent his weekend updating and apologising to residents for water outages that have left certain areas of the city without water for nearly a week.
In some parts of the Western suburbs, water was briefly restored on Saturday but on Sunday Councillor Bobani informed residents that no water could be treated at Nooitgedacht due to a lack of electricity.
On Monday morning, desperate residents were informed of yet another electricity outage at Nooitgedacht which resulted in the treatment of water being stopped.
The Metro said they hope to restart operations at lunchtime on Monday.
Before the power failure, the Chelsea reservoir was at 13% and dropped to 9% after the morning demand.
Residents are urged to use water sparingly and to monitor the Metro's social media accounts for regular updates on where water tankers are being dispatched.
NMB residents were warned that the Metro could be running out of water soon as there has been no significant rain in the catchment areas to break the drought.
Bobani announced on Friday that Metro’s main supply dams could run completely dry if residents do not take heed of the warnings.
And according to the latest figures released by the municipality on Monday morning, the level of Nelson Mandela Bay’s four main supply dams is currently at 18.91% of total combined capacity.
There was some slight runoff over the weekend and the latest reading shows a marginal increase from the previous reading of 18.84% taken on the 3rd of September.
The largest supply dam, the Kouga, is at 8.31%, the Churchill Dam is at 55.38%, the Impofu at 18.39% and the Groendal Dam at 23.72%.
