DIE Kouga-munisipaliteit, wat deurloop onder een van die ergste droogtes in die geskiedenis, wil sy afhanklikheid verminder van die twee hoofopgaardamme wat die streek van water voorsien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is die Churchill- en die Impofu-dam, wat deur die departement van Waterwese en Sanitasie besit word. Di\u00e9 damme verskaf ook water aan die Nelson Mandelabaai-metro en omliggende munisipaliteite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Horatio Hendricks, Kouga-burgemeester, het verlede Donderdag op sy eerste munisipale rede op Jeffreysbaai ges\u00ea die damme word nie bestuur met die beste belange van Kouga se inwoners in gedagte nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea Kouga het talle ondergrondse fonteine, wat aan die munisipaliteit die geleentheid bied om drinkwater van alternatiewe bronne te bekom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns fokus die afgelope 14 maande was om nuwe boorgate te ontwikkel ten einde watervoorsiening aan ons dorpe te verhoog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie munisipaliteit het aanvanklik sy eie geld gebruik om boorgate by Oesterbaai, Hankey, Patensie en Jeffreysbaai te sink. Agtien van die boorgate het water opgelewer, maar dit was nie altyd van die regte gehalte nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hendricks s\u00ea die program het in Oktober, verlede jaar \u2019n welkome hupstoot gekry toe die nasionale tesourie R151 miljoen aan die munisipaliteit gegee het vir droogteverligting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea dit was \u2019n trotse oomblik vir die munisipaliteit, omdat aansoeke selde ten volle gedek word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit spreek boekdele van ons werknemers en hul toegewyding om \u2019n einde te bring aan Kouga se waterkrisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die eerste R58,7 miljoen kom van die provinsiale rampbestuurfonds. Dit gaan die munisipaliteit help om water aan die 23 868 huishoudings te verskaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Gedeelte van die geld word ook gebruik om die munisipaliteit se boorgat-projek op Hankey, Patensie, Jeffreysbaai, Humansdorp en Oesterbaai te versnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit gaan die munisipaliteit in staat stel om ekstra boorgate te sink, om die verkryging en die behandeling van water vanaf die Kleinrivier op Hankey te verbeter, en om die fonteine by Rebelsrus en Mostertshoek, in die St. Francis-omgewing, te ontwikkel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die tweede bedrag van R92,5 miljoen is verkry deur die infrastruktuurtoekenning vir waterdienste. Meer as 12 600 huishoudings gaan hierby baat vind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van di\u00e9 bedrag gaan R35 miljoen gebruik word om die Jeffreysbaai-watersuiwerings-aanleg op te gradeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hiervan gaan R20 miljoen aangewend word om die natuurlike waterbronne by Humansdorp op te knap, en R27 miljoen vir die munisipaliteit se War on Leaks-program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die werk sluit in die vervanging van ou pype op Hankey, Patensie en Oesterbaai, en die herstel van waterlekke by huise in histories- agtergeblewe gebiede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die munisipaliteit het dit maklik gemaak vir inwoners om gebarste pype en foutiewe watermeters by hul oproepsentrum aan te meld en by wyse van sy Link-app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As gevolg daarvan kon die munisipaliteit van Julie 2018 tot Januarie vanjaar 2 694 waterverwante klagtes oplos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hankey en Patensie in die Gamtoosvallei word die ergste geraak deur die droogte. Di\u00e9 dorpe het verlede jaar \u2019n kritieke watertekort ondervind toe die watervlak van die Kouga-dam tot 7% gedaal het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ondanks goeie re\u00ebnval is die dam tans steeds net 48,15% vol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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