NEWS RELEASE                                                                                  5 April 2002

COUNCIL APPROVES URGENT WORK TO PROTECT CITY POWER SUPPLY

 The City of Cape Town has approved urgent work to be carried out on shunt reactors in Montague Gardens that are vital to protect the supply of electrical power to the CBD and Atlantic suburbs. 

Councillor David Erleigh, the Executive Committee Member responsible for City Infrastructure, said refurbishment was approved to prevent what a report to the Council described as a “potentially catastrophic event”.  

“During the refurbishing process it was found that parts of the reactors that were to be re-used in terms of the tender also needed replacing,” he said. “The additional tender of R167 000 could not wait for the full Council approval process and was approved by the Executive Committee instead.” 

Rotek Engineering has been awarded the contract, which has a total value of R5,95 million.

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