Die oorsprong van vloedwater wat die verdere ontwikkeling van die Hullstraat- ge\u00efntegreerde behuisingsontwikkeling langs De Beers in Kimberley en omliggende eiendomme bedreig, word deur verskeie departemente, \u2019n mynmaatskappy en die Sol Plaatje-munisipaliteit ondersoek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens verskeie betrokkenes is die watertafel in die stad \u201cgeweldig hoog\u201d n\u00e1 die buitengewoon goeie re\u00ebnseisoen waarin meer as 600 mm re\u00ebnval in en om die stad gemeet is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Toetse wat die VF Plus op die vloedwater laat doen het, toon onder meer ongewone en \u201ckommerwekkende\u201d ho\u00eb swael\u00advlakke. Die party het ook monsters van krane in die woonbuurt geneem wat bevestig die vloedwater is nie munisipale drinkwater nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Wit neerslag waar die water gevloei het, het in die veld en op paaie en sypaadjies kristaliseer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Groot waterpoele is nog in die veld en aan die punt van een van die strate sigbaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die water het volgens sommige inwoners n\u00e1 die laaste re\u00ebn in Junie vanjaar opgestoot, en het tot \u2019n week gelede in sterk strome op \u2019n oop stuk grond in die veld tussen die woongebied en die Ekapa-mynterrein gevloei. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lungelo Hlangwana, uitvoerende hoof van die Hullstraat- ge\u00efntegreer\u00adde behuisingsontwikkeling, s\u00ea verdere ontwikkeling op die betrokke oop stuk grond is deur die water en gevolglike moddermassa op erf nommer 34185 vertraag. Hulle beplan om sowat 600 huise op di\u00e9 erf van 4 ha te bou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie plaveiselpad in Piccadilly\u00adstraat voor ander inwoners se huise het heeltemal verspoel, wat \u2019n geldelike verlies is. Daar is skade aan huise weens die vog en neerslae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het \u2019n tegniese span wat uit verskillende ingenieurs en bou\u00adrekenaars bestaan. Die departement van menslike nedersettings gaan \u2019n geohidroloog aanstel om die oorsprong van die water te bepaal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie watertafel is hoog n\u00e1 die afgelope goeie re\u00ebnseisoen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andr\u00e9 Nieman, eienaar van die Kimberley-karavaanpark, is hoogs ontevrede oor die skade aan sy kampterrein en geboue, waarvan sommige al maande onder water staan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk kan nie my chalets verhuur nie. Ek vrees dat die geboue gaan kraak wanneer dit uitdroog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMense wil nie meer hier kampeer nie weens die modder en die aardige reuk. Die salpeter slaan wit uit aan geboue, en een van my buitemure het omgeval. Ek was verplig om teen duisende rande slote te grawe om die water weg te keer wat van \u2019n ho\u00ebrliggende gebied af kom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk verstaan dat die watertafel hoog is, maar ek het in 24 jaar, waarin daar ook goeie re\u00ebnseisoene was, nooit so iets beleef nie. Ek wil weet waar presies die water vandaan kom, en wie pa gaan staan vir die skade aan my besigheid.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Wynand Boshoff, VF Plus-LP en Noord-Kaapse provinsiale leier, s\u00ea hulle het die water stroomop gevolg en gevind dat daar geen munisipale aanleg in di\u00e9 rigting is waar die water vandaan kom nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWatermonsters is van water in die veld en van die munisipale waternetwerk geneem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLaboratoriumtoetse dui aan dat die water in die veld nie aan die munisipale waterstelsel verbind kan word nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is kommerwekkend dat die water \u2019n laer pH het as die norm vir boorgate in die omgewing, en die ho\u00eb swaelvlakke laat waarskuwingsligte aangaan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is belangrik dat gewone mense se eiendom beskerm en afvalwater ingevolge wetlike bepalings bestuur word.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle gaan die Groen Skerpioene versoek om ondersoek in te stel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zandisile Luphahla, woordvoerder vir die departement van landbou en omgewingsake, s\u00ea die departement van waterwese en sanitasie moet \u2019n ondersoek doen voordat die Groen Skerpioene ingeroep sal word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Thoko Riet, munisipale woordvoerder, is hulle bewus van \u2019n ho\u00ebr watertafel, maar wag op die uitslae van \u2019n ondersoek wat in samewerking met die departement van water en sanitasie gedoen word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het gesien dat wanneer die stad se watertoevoer afgesluit is, water steeds in vloedwaterkanale vloei. Dit suggereer dat ondergrondse water na die oppervlak deursyfer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Ekapa-mynmaatskappy s\u00ea in \u2019n verklaring dat die watertafel aansienlik gestyg het n\u00e1 ho\u00eb re\u00ebnval oor die hele Kimberley-streek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie streek ervaar \u2019n uitdaging om grootskaalse oorskotwater te bestuur, wat grondwater, oppervlakwater en rioolwater insluit. Ons help die departement van waterwese om die invloed oor \u2019n wye gebied te bepaal, wat ook Ekapa se mynreggebied raak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie stygende watervlakke is oral sigbaar, soos aan die kante van die N12- en N8-roetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEkapa pas goedgekeurde waterbestuursprosesse binne die mynreggebied toe, waar die maatskappy sy verantwoordelikhede nakom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is \u2019n dinamiese uitdaging wat ons voortdurend moniteer. Prosesse en ingrypings word toegepas namate die behoefte in verskillende gebiede ontstaan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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