On receiving notification of a water outage or water quality issue, the Building Maintenance section has the following responsibilities:
EMERGENCY CONDITIONS – OFFICE HOURS:
- Ensure that Grounds and Gardens and CPU have been notified of the outage or water quality issue.
- Manager to dispatch plumbers to ascertain nature of problem.
- Plumbers to establish whether outage or water quality issue is minor/local or major/general, on university or municipal property.
MAJOR (GENERAL) OUTAGE OR WATER QUALITY ISSUE:
- Once the plumbers have identified the problem as being municipal, notify Makana Municipality to attend to the situation.
- Manager to get updates from the municipality on the status of the outage or water quality issue.
- Manager to ascertain as soon as possible whether or not:
- Plumbers should switch all relevant valves in buildings to borehole supply (where available).
- Grounds and Gardens should be called to cart additional water to water tanks, as required
MINOR (LOCAL) OUTAGE OR WATER QUALITY ISSUE:
- Manager to delegate responsibilities to plumbers (office hours) / standby plumbers (after hours).
- Manager to notify Deputy Director of Facilities Servicing or his/her appointee.
- Manager to ascertain whether or not:
- Plumbers should switch all relevant valves in buildings to borehole supply (where available).
- Grounds and Gardens should be called to supply water tanks.
EMERGENCY CONDITIONS – AFTER HOURS:
- Once standby plumbers have identified the problem as being municipal, notify Makana Municipality to attend to the situation.
- Standby plumbers inform Manager of Building Maintenance about the outage or water quality issue.
- Standby plumbers communicate with Makana Municipality about the status of the outage or water quality issue.
Last Modified: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:29:35 SAST