Residents of Athlone Park fear prolonged water outage after pump station vandalised
The eThekwini Municipality says teams are on the ground assessing the damage caused to a pump station in Amanzimtoti's Athlone Park.
The station has been vandalised, putting even more pressure on the already constrained supply to the area.
The city says the electric cables were cut and stolen, and the control panel was damaged.
It has condemned the attack.
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The city says the affected pump station feeds water to the elevated tower, which in turn supplies Athlone Park.
Resident and local businessman Greg Thomas says he's also been on the ground on behalf of the community.
"The procurement division, it takes so long for them to organise the repair. The actual article they need takes them forever. So, I can tell you right now that we won’t have water. The only way they going to fix this is the manual system.
"We even offered as the community to put into place a roster, that people will get up every hour, two of us. We will then send a man to that tower to do it manually so that we have water. That's the only way they going fix it; otherwise, we're not going to have water for two months."
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