CITY OF BULAWAYO
WATER SUPPLY INTERRUPTIONS TO AREAS SUPPLIED BY THE MAGWEGWE AND CRITERION RESERVOIRS
The City of Bulawayo would like to advise the public of water supply interruptions to all areas fed by the Magwegwe and Criterion reservoirs for a further two weeks up to Friday, the 28th of August 2020. Should the system normalize before then, the City will revert back to the water shedding programme.
The interruption is due to the prolonged time needed for the city’s reservoirs to recover since the theft of 2km of electricity supply cables on the 31st of July 2020, as well as recent three emergency leaks repairs to the Nyamandlovu line on the 6th of August 2020 and the latest power supply challenges to the Rochester Nyamandlovu boreholes which occurred at night on Thursday, 13 August 2020 and which Zimbabwe Electricity Distribution Company (ZETDC) is currently working on.
These factors against the background of City Average Consumption which for the last two weeks has continued to be higher than supply have resulted in the prolonged recovery of the City’s Reservoirs. This is further compounded by the low Dam levels.
Suburbs that are affected are;
Magwegwe Reservoir - Luveve, Magwegwe, Njube, Entumbane, Mpopoma, Lobengula, Lobengula West, Mabutweni, Iminyela, Pelandaba, Matshobane, Cowdray Park, Emakhandeni, Gwabalanda and Maplanka.
All Magwegwe outlets are therefore shut with immediate effect to make way for it to recover.
Criterion Reservoir – Bellevue, West Sommerton, Tshabalala, Sizinda, Parts of Kelvin, All Nkulumane suburbs, All Nketa suburbs, All of Emganwini, All Pumula suburbs (Old, South, East and North)
Council is with immediate effect suspending regular and scheduled supply based on the 144-hour shedding programme.
Supplies from both Magwegwe and Criterion shall be available on an as and basis, depending on the reservoir levels to allow for the consumers to only fill up their containers.
This shall be reviewed regularly until Friday, the 28th August 2020, a date which we envisage the system to have recovered enough for supply to be regularized to allow for reversion back to the 144 hour weekly shedding programme.
Bulawayo City Council wishes to apologise to its valued consumers for the inconvenience likely to be caused.
ADVERT NO : 7048
Date: Saturday, 15 August 2020
C. DUBE TOWN CLERK
