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Daar is selfs nou al strukture opgerig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duisende rande se skade is verlede jaar aan vesel-optiese kabels aangerig nadat \u2019n reusebrand onder die brug uitgebreek het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die brug in die Sentraal-Paarl en oor die skilderagtige Bergrivier, is al jare lank \u2019n twispunt en \u2019n plakkerskamp het al onder die brug ontwikkel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope gemors l\u00ea daar rond en geen toiletgeriewe is beskikbaar nie. Die gebied rondom die plakkerskamp word openlik as toilet gebruik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die brug-plakkerskamp is ook \u2019n bekende wettelose nes waar gesteelde goedere en dwelms hande verwissel en moord en verkragting ook plaasvind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019n Glinster van hoop het verlede week onder inwoners van die Paarl, wat hierdie gemors moet aanskou, opgevlam toe \u2019n konstruksiekantoor hier opgerig is \u2013 reg oorkant die munisipale hoofkantoor in die Paarl \u2013 en die gebied langs die rivier afgesper is. Inwoners het gehoop dit kan dalk \u2019n poging van die munisipaliteit wees juis om die gebied van Markstraat se kant af af te sper om die haweloses onder die brug te verjaag en die gebied mooi skoon te maak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit was egter van korte duur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By navraag hieroor het die direkteur van korporatiewe en beplannings\u00addienste, Seraj Johaar, ges\u00ea die konstruksiewerk oorkant die Paarlse burgersentrum behels die konstruksie van \u2019n wandelpad tussen Lady Greystraat en Markstraat, wat parallel met die Bergrivier Boulevard en die Bergrivier self loop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die projek word moontlik gemaak deur Duitse finansiering, wat deur die klimaatvennootskap tussen die Drakenstein-munisipaliteit en die Stadt Neumarkt bekom is. Dit is dieselfde stad wat die opknappingswerk van die Arboretum in die Paarl gefinansier het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johaar het ges\u00ea die projek is juis \u2019n uitbreiding van die opgraderings wat onlangs in die Paarl Arboretum gedoen is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie konstruksie van die wandelpad is deel van \u2019n groter projek om ekologiese rehabilitering in die Bergrivier te doen.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die projek behels die verwydering van indringerplante op die oewers van die Bergrivier tussen Markstraat en Langstraat, Paarl; die aanplant van inheemse plantspesies om die ekologie van die rivier te verbeter; die opgradering van die tuin oorkant die Paarlse burgersentrum; asook die konstruksie van die wandelpad om infrastruktuur vir voetgangers tussen die Paarlse sakekern en siviele dienste soos die Paarlse landdroshof, die Paarlse polisiekantoor en meer te verbeter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie doel van die projek is om die Bergrivier deur ekologiese rehabilitering meer bestand te maak teen die impak van klimaatsverandering en om die publiek \u2019n geleentheid te bied om interaksie met die Bergrivier buite die Paarl Arboretum te h\u00ea. 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