Though most residents have been getting at least a semi-constant supply of municipal water since the good rainfall in the catchment area in December made the Kowie River flow strongly over the Waters Meeting weir, we are still…
Workers digging a trench to lay internet fibre hit a water mains in Anglers Way, Port Alfred on Thursday morning. Untold thousands of litres of water were lost. In the time Talk of the Town was there no repair crew had yet arrived. We…
Ndlambe Municipality has sent out a notice advising residents that a critical pipeline between the balancing dam and water treatment plant in Port Alfred has burst. “Consequently no water can be pumped from the central borehole system at…
Residents noticed a water leak in Dickinson Road between Atherstone Road and George Street last Friday. On Saturday night an alert about the leak went up on Talk of the Town’s Facebook group, with the advisory that a pipe had burst and a…
The scene in Main Street, Port Alfred on Tuesday afternoon, February 12, after a water main burst and municipal workers had to excavate a large hole and pump water into the street to stop the hole flooding as repairs were undertaken.…
According to Clr. Schenk: “We have experienced a major pipe burst on one of our main water lines from the balancing dam into the water treatment plant. Subsequently the water supply in Port Alfred had to be switched off while temporary…
We have just been informed that a main line water pipe between the reservoir and balancing dam has burst. The municipality is currently working on the problem, however, areas in Forest Downs, West Beach and areas feeding off the Smith…