New RO plant in Port Alfred only producing 1.5ML/day Water in Bathurst has been shut off for two days – yesterday and today – to allow the pumping of water into the reservoir so levels can rise. Ndlambe Municipality announced this…
On Thursday May 20, Talk of the Town came across this company, Makeli Cartage, siphoning water from the residential communal tank in Park Road to fill four 200-litre drums. This kind of abuse of water meant for the community during the…
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…
I refer to the editorial opinion, “Water questions remain” (TotT, February 25). Some high lying areas of Port Alfred have been without municipal water for the past six weeks. The explanation for the sudden appearance of water in parts of…
The municipality is often blamed for ineptitude, neglect and deceit, but sometimes unfairly so. This week we received a complaint from a Bathurst resident who said her domestic worker had told her Nolukhanyo residents had no water and…
Something never mentioned in the water crisis updates from Ndlambe Municipality is the use of fire hydrants to extract water to cart to other areas. Since early last year to very recently, water tankers were extracting water several times…
From Friday, Ndlambe Municipality will limit Port Alfred’s water supply to 6am to 10am daily, to be able to conserve the dwindling resource. In a notice released this afternoon, the municipality said the Eastern Cape is still in the grips…
Ndlambe Municipality will install water tanks at various strategic positions on Port Alfred’s west and east bank for residents to be able to collect water, starting on Monday November 30. Such water tanks have already been placed and are…
Update on water situation in Ndlambe
The current water situation in Ndlambe is as follows: Port Alfred: The Sarel Hayward Dam is presently at 5.3% capacity. Sadly, the recent rains had no impact on water flow to the weir, thus water cannot be pumped from the weir to the…
As Port Alfred reached day zero in its water crisis, the flow stopped to the high lying areas first, in Nemato, the East Bank, and Forest Downs and other parts of the West Bank. Municipal water tankers have been filling up from hydrants…
Ndlambe Municipality held a media briefing on Thursday about the state of water in Port Alfred. Infrastructural development director Noluthando Vithi-Masiza spoke about water quality, particularly the discoloration – which she said was…
On Saturday March 23, Talk of the Town went to look at the state of the balancing dam that serves Port Alfred, which is the main storage facility between the Sarel Hayward Dam at Waters Meeting near Bathurst and the water treatment works…
Ndlambe Municipality has issued a notice advising that Kenton-on-Sea, Bushman’s River, Marselle and surrounding areas are encountering drastic water challenges due to drought and Eskom power outages. Consequently the reservoir levels are…
