For the past few weeks the Bo Die Rand area has been experiencing daily interruptions in water supply, for hours on end.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have now reached a point where there is often no water available at nighttime as well. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The water pressure is so low that even if there is a trickle from the cold tap, no hot water can flow from the geyser.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In short, we cannot cook, wash our bodies or our clothing, or flush toilets. I, for one, am not in the position to book into a hotel for the purpose of ablutions.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, new high-density housing developments spring up like mushrooms, even in the relative centre of town, placing infrastructure under ever more pressure, and negatively impacting the quality of life of existing inhabitants.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This municipality should please get its house in order, and provide all its ratepayers with decent services, before blindly expanding the town. It is not sustainable.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heather Steel,\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stellenbosch\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stuart Grobbelaar, spokesperson for Stellenbosch Municipality, responds:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The municipality would like to apologise for the pipe network outages in the Bo Die Rand area.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Some pipe repairs are due to the pressure differences in the system when surrounding repairs are conducted, which cause the pressure release valves to be manually operated by the operators.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, a pipe network needs to be “bled” after the repair to ensure that the air pockets are removed from the system.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The resident is encouraged to send us the instances of the outages quoted, or report it on any of the municipality’s Lets Fix It channels.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The municipality currently has a pipe repair consultant and panel of contractors working on the upgrade of certain sections and junctions of pipes based on our scientific analyses of the pipe network.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, and most importantly, the recent water interruption and low water pressure experienced in the Bo Die Rand area was caused by a burst pipe within the said network.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The issue has since been attended to and repaired.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our technical teams have confirmed that water pressure within the system has returned to normal operating levels.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the past few weeks the Bo Die Rand area has been experiencing daily interruptions in water supply, for hours on end. 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