Save the Olifants
Intervention Strategy
5 May 2011
Water Resource Quality Status
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Maps
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Status summary
Ideal
Acceptable
Tolerable
Unacceptable
WQ status summary
Olifants EC percentage com pliance
14%
7%
43%
Ideal
Ideal
Acceptable
Acceptable
Tolerable
Tolarable
Unacceptable
Unacceptable
36%
Olifants SO4 percentage com pliance
Ideal
Ideal
43%
50%
Acceptable
Acceptable
Tolerable
Tolarable
Unacceptable
Unacceptable
7%
0%
Olifants Cl percentage com pliance
14%
Ideal
Ideal
14%
51%
Acceptable
Acceptable
Tolerable
Tolarable
Unacceptable
Unacceptable
21%
Olifants PO4 percentage com pliance
0%
0%
29%
Ideal
Ideal
Acceptable
Acceptable
Tolerable
Tolarable
Unacceptable
Unacceptable
71%
Olifants NH3-N percentage com pliance
0%
0%
36%
Ideal
Ideal
Acceptable
Acceptable
Tolerable
Tolarable
64%
Unacceptable
Unacceptable
Strategic Technical Task Team
for
Water Quality Management
(STTTWQM)
Save the Olifants task team
Coordinating Committee
Save the Olifants Task Team
Project Committee
Strategic Technical Task Team
for
Water Quality Management
(STTTWQM)
Coordinating Committee:
Save the Olifants task team
Project Committee:
Save the Olifants Task Team
Intervention/ Project
Head Office
Directorate/ SubDirectorate
Name of responsible
Project manager
Resource water quality
planning:
•RWQOs
•Long term planning
•Assessment
WRPS
WQP
Beason Mwaka
Resource quality services:
•Monitoring
•Ecological Assessment
RQS
Local Government
•Drinking water
•Waste water
•Diffuse pollution:
Landfill sites
RP& W
Industry
•Waste water
•Diffuse pollution
RP& W
Mines
•Waste water
•Diffuse pollution
RP& W
Molefe Morokane
Agriculture:
Diffuse pollution
RP& W
Abashoni Nefale
Lebeko Morifi
Compliance monitoring and
enforcement
CME
Mishelle Govender
Regional Office operation& implementation
section
Pieter Viljoen
Lebo Mosoa
Nadene Slabbert
Institutional Establishment
• Johan van Aswegen
WSR
Willy Mosefowa &
Wilna Moolman
Water Quality Management
•Stanford Macevele
Leonardo Manus
Water Sector Support (Water Services)
•Vespa Mabitsi
Lebogang Matlala
Water Sector Regulation and Use
•Mamokgala Musekene
Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement
• Busi Mahlangu
CME
Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement
RP&W
Resource Protection and Waste
WQP
Water Quality Planning
WRPS
Water Resource Planning Systems
WSR
Water Service Regulation
Strategic Technical Task Team
for
Water Quality Management
(STTTWQM)
Save the Olifants task team
Coordinating Committee
Save the Olifants Task Team
Project Committee
Intervention/ Project
Project Manager
Participants
Resource water quality planning
WRPS: WQP
WRPS; WQP
RO
RDM,RIMS, RQS, RP&W
Resource quality services
RQS
RQS
RO
CSIR
Local Government
RP&W
RP&W
RO
LG
Industry
RP&W
RP&W
RO
Industries
Agriculture
RP&W
RP&W
RO
DAF&F
Mines
RP&W
RP&W
RO
Council of Geosciences
DMR
Compliance and monitoring
CME
RO
Save the Olifants Task Team:
Water Quality Coordinating
Committee: Report
Report structure
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Water Resource Quality Status
Drinking Water Quality Status
Licenses
Point Source Compliance
Diffuse Source Management
Pollution Incidents / Complaints
Water Quality Related Projects
Water Quality Report
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Water Resource Quality Status
Drinking Water Quality Status
Licenses
Point Source Compliance
Diffuse Source Management
Pollution Incidents / Complaints
Water Quality Related Projects
Water Quality Related Projects
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Current projects:
CSIR study:
Risk Assessment of Pollution in Surface Waters of the Upper Olifants River System:
Implications for Aquatic Ecosystem Health and the Health of human Users of Water
NWRP:
Development of a Reconciliation Strategy for the Olifants River Supply System
Classification
RP&W :
Determination of charge rates for the WDCS.
Review of Regulation GN 704
RQS:
Assessment of Agricultural pesticides in the Groblersdal area.
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Proposed projects:
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WRPS
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Development of Water Quality Management Plan for the Olifants River System (including the Letaba River).
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Resource Quality Objectives
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Classification System implementation
Thank You