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Precautionary boil notice issued for discoloured water across parts of Cape Town

5th August 2022 By: Natasha Odendaal Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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The City of Cape Town has issued a precautionary boil notice for water across parts of Cape Town as water in the distribution system from Faure water treatment plant over parts of the eastern, central and southern suburbs of the city is currently discoloured.

The advisory notice recommends residents in the affected areas boil their tap water prior to drinking it or using it for food preparation and cooking until further notice as a precautionary measure while the city investigates and does further testing, the City of Cape Town said in a statement on Friday.

The affected areas are primarily south of the N2 reaching from Strand in the East through Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Philippi to Plumstead and down into the Southern suburbs as far as about Muizenburg.

“The city is working on resolving the problem as soon as possible, and would like to apologise for any inconvenience. The situation is anticipated to normalise the water quality in this part of the supply network, over the next few days.”

As intensive water sampling and ongoing testing are being conducted, supply from the Faure water treatment plant has been halted, with the affected areas of the network supplied water from Blackheath Reservoir.

“The fault is owing to a process control fault at the Faure water treatment plant, which is the result of cumulative effects of recent phases of load-shedding, which caused limited operational hours of the sludge handling process,” the City notes.

This part of the treatment process cannot be augmented by generator capacity owing to high energy demand.

The city is working “with urgency” to reduce its reliance on State-owned power utility Eskom and end load-shedding in Cape Town, as the continued sporadic bouts of load-shedding have a detrimental effect on the City’s operations.

“The city is also continuing to build on its programme of ending load-shedding over time by focusing on energy diversification to enhance security of supply with the city’s own build projects, small-scale embedded generation programmes of buying excess power from qualifying customers, wheeling and independent power producer programmes,” it says.

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