Sanitation progress
at Mdantsane
Buffalo City Municipality appointed SBA’s East London
operation over two years ago to plan, design and call for
tenderers for the construction of necessary sewage
infrastructure of the Mdantsane Bufferstrip housing
development.
Water services
management support
to Delmas
Munitech has been appointed in terms of DWAF
Mpumalanga’s management plan to provide water
services management assistance to the Delmas Local
Municipality.
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o ensure this housing development is not delayed as a result of
inadequate bulk services, the project is being implemented in phases.
Currently bulk sewer pipelines are being installed, old pipes and manholes
with insufficient capacity are being replaced with new ones and in some
instances, new sewer lines are being constructed parallel to existing outfalls,”
says André Naudé, director of SBA, East London. “One of the biggest
challenges is that the replacement of sections of the sewer pipeline is
taking place in live sewers in confined areas.”
Phases successfully completed to date include the stabilisation of the
Mdantsane sewer treatment works, the construction of a sewer pump station
in Zone 10 and the Area 1 connector sewer pipelines.
Mdantsane, which is located some 20 km north west of East London, has
a population of approximately 111 000 people and once fully developed,
the Bufferstri