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Moira Cloete Environmental Consulting has been appointed by Kantey and Templer Engineering Consultants on behalf of the Applicant, Joe Gqabi District Municipality, to conduct the Environmental Authorisation process for Phase 1 of the proposed construction and upgrade of the Ugie Sanitation System.

 

The need to upgrade the sanitation infrastructure of Ugie was identified as early as 2001. Ugie’s formal municipal sanitation system is generally poorly developed. The residential and township areas use conservancy tanks which are not currently maintained and are overflowing. The poor sanitation infrastructure poses a health risk to the residents of Ugie and detrimental pollution to the surrounding environment. The single existing wastewater treatment facility has a capacity of 0.6ML/day and only serves the Prentjiesberg suburb, which has an estimated sewage flow of 0.24ML/day. A waterborne sanitation system is provided in the north east corner of the Prentjiesberg suburb. The capacity of the facility is 0.6ML/day. Ugie park extension and Ugie Park towhships is served by a conservancy tank system whereby the effluent is extracted from the community conservancy tanks by honey sucker tankers and discharged in the Ugie oxidation pond system situated to the north west of the town. However, the conservancy tanks are old, broken, inaccessible and leaching into the environment and ground water table

 

Location: Ugie, Elundini Local Municipality, Joe Gqabi District Municipality region. Phase 1 work will occur on the following erfs: 5439, 2884, 3393, 2896, 2577, 2895.

 

Applicant: The Joe Gqabi District Municipality.

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Competent Authority: Department of Economic Development Environmental Affairs and Tourism - Aliwal North Regional Office, Eastern Cape.

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DEADEAT Ref: EC 141/JG/LN1&3/M/24/04.

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Persons wishing to comment on the DBAR (accessible via the link below) are invited to submit written comments to MCEC. The 30 day commenting period ends on the9 May 2024.