SA Affordable Housing November - December 2018 // Issue: 73 | Page 5

NEWS
Massive stormwater
channel in Paarl, W Cape
A huge stormwater drainage channel has been
completed at Vlakkeland low-cost housing estate
in a peri-urban area on the outskirts of Paarl.
W
to protect the new housing estate from
water flows during heavy downpours.
Specified by the Western Cape’s
Provincial Government, it was designed
by consulting engineers, Lyners and
Associates, based on input from
Guillaume Nel Environmental
Consultants (GNEC) and some initial
ith over 79 000 precast
permeable concrete Terracrete
grass blocks, manufactured by
Terraforce licensee and CMA member
Klapmuts Concrete, the A 1.8km by 6.5m
wide stormwater drainage channel forms
the major component of a Sustainable
Urban Drainage System (SUDS) designed
Terracrete grass blocks lining the stormwater channel.
Mini gabion dams were included in the project to reduce flow rates.
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