Tag Archives: Kimberley Infrastructure

UPDATE: 09 Feb 2021 – 12:00 Sol Plaatje have temporarily switched Newton Reservoir off to do repairs. This is affecting a large number of areas once again with little to no water pressure. Areas Affected: All areas serviced by Newton ...

Sol Plaatje have stated that due to the heavy rains, the excavation for the sewer pipeline has collapsed damaging a 250mm water main. Water will first be pumped out and then an assessment will be done to effect the necessary ...

TEMPORARY WATER INTERRUPTION – Newton Reservoir UPDATE: 19 Jan 2021 – 19:20 Sol Plaatje are currently still busy with repairs affecting the water supply. Water restoration will take longer than 2 hours as initially stated at 17:00. At this stage ...

Kimberley Power Outage – Multiple Areas: 19 Jan 2021 – 14:15 There are currently electricity outages in and around parts of De Beers, West End, Kimberley North, Colville, Kimdustria, Moghul Park and possibly other areas not mentioned. We are waiting ...

Sol Plaatje have temporarily switched Newton Reservoir off to do some repairs. This is affecting a large number of areas once again with little to no water pressure. Unfortunately no timeframe was given as to when they will switch the ...

Sol Plaatje stated on their social media that the water supply from Newton Reservoir will be interrupted whilst they work on a burst pipe near the Sol Plaatje University. At this stage no time frame was given. Areas Affected: All ...

Kimberley Power Outage – Multiple Areas: 14 Jan 2021 – 15:11 When Hadison Park Substation were restored after loadshedding, the 11kV feeder to Royldene tripped on earth fault. We busy isolating fault to restore supply. Message via Mr Sithole on ...

Water Outage UPDATE: 8 January 2021 – 14:15 The cable fault has been repaired and the abstraction pumps were started at the Vaal river around 7pm last night. The highlift pumps to Kimberley were started last night at 8pm in ...

TEMPORARY WATER INTERRUPTION 20 DEC 2020 UPDATE 19/12/2020 @ 18:33 Please note the Infrastructure team today (14:00) met with Executive Mayor and Chairperson of Utility on site at pipe leaking 965mm. As per directive from Executive Mayor the emergency repairs ...

TEMPORARY WATER INTERRUPTION: CBD AREA AND OTHERS. One of the 600mm water pipes at the corner of Carrington and Main road is currently leaking which makes it necessary that emergency repairs be conducted tomorrow, 16th December 2020 from 6am until ...