THIRD QUARTER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION REPORT
FOR
SETSOTO REGIONAL BULK WATER SUPPLY SCHEME
FREE STATE
CHIEF DIRECTORATE: BULK INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMME
PERIOD: 01 OCTOBER 2014 TO 31 DECEMBER 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.
Introduction
2.
Background
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
3.
Progress to date
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.6
4.
Description of project
Project History
Project concept, design and plan
Start date – duration of the programme
Fund previously allocated to project
Implementation of approved business plan
Schedules of work and phasing of the activities
Risks taken and management thereof
Capacities dedicated to the programme
Key challenges within the project
Project result and beneficiaries
4.1
4.2
Outcomes and outputs
Beneficiaries and project results.
5.
Conclusions / Lessons Learned
5.1
Main successes and failures of the project to date
5.2
Ownership and sustainability of infrastructure works
6.
Recommendations
ANNEXURE A: Project Implementation Photos
ANNEXURE B: List of villages expected to benefit from Phase 1
ANNEXURE C: Details of contracts awarded under Phase 1
ANNEXURE D: Project schedule
ANNEXURE E: Details of job opportunities
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1.
INTRODUCTION
In terms of Section 10(7) (b) of the Division of Revenue Act No 10 of 2014 (DORA) as
promulgated in Government Gazette No 37595 dated 26 April 2014, the transferring
national officer must submit a quarterly performance report for all Programmes funded by
a Schedule 6 allocation within 45 days after the end of each quarter, in accordance of the
relevant framework to the National Treasury.
The Regional Bulk Infrastructure Grant (RBIG) is a Schedule 6 indirect conditional grant
for the benefit in kind of municipalities.
The objective of this Report is to provide a performance evaluation report covering the 3rd
quarter of the fiscal year of RBIG funded projects, in compliance with the DORA. The
objective of this evaluation was to determine whether the progress on the project is
commensurate with the expenditure to date as well as to determine whether the project is
still on course in terms of the original planning.
This performance evaluation report, covering the 3rd quarter of the fiscal year is for the
Setsoto Regional Bulk Water Supply Scheme, one of the Regional Bulk Infrastructure
Grant projects, currently being implemented by the Setsoto Local Municipality, with
Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) as funder.
2.
BACKGROUND
2.1
Description of Project
Setsoto Local Municipality is part of the Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality in the
Free State.
The Setsoto Local Municipality has been experiencing severe water shortages in the
towns of Clocolan, Marquard and Senekal and had to consider options to ensure the
provision of sufficient and sustainable potable water systems in the future, over both the
short and longer term.
Various options were discovered that would cover Senekal and to augment an existing
system that would cover Ficksburg, Clocolan and Marquard.
The Senekal solution options were:
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Ground Water Assessment within a 10 km Radius of Senekal
The pumping of clean water from the Bethlehem Water Purification Plant
The pumping of raw water from the Rosendal Dam in Rosendal if the dam
construction is approved
The raising of the Sandspruit Weir by 3.5 meters for additional 2.2 million cubic
meters of storage.
The Ficksburg, Clocolan and Marquard solution options were:
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Ground Water Assessment with a 10 km radius of each town
The raising of the Meulspruit dam by 2 meters
The storage of additional water in the Rosendal Dam if approved
The pumping of water from the Caledon River to the Meulspruit Dam with Diversion
to Clocolan and Marquard.
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2.2
Project history
The Setsoto Bulk Water Supply Scheme was implemented to ensure a sustainable and
long-term solution for the water supply problems that had been experienced in the
Ficksburg, Clocolan, Marquard and Senekal areas.
The supply problems in Setsoto are due to low rainfalls, high level of siltation in the raw
water supply dams, Meulspruit in Ficksburg, Moperi Dam in Clocolan, Newu Hoop Dam in
Marquard, Sand River Weir and Sandspruit Weir in Senekal. Senekal has insufficient raw
water storage facilities and very old water treatment works in Senekal, constructed in
1961, 1974 and 1991. The first two being the most problematic when there was a break
down due to obsolete mechanical and electrical equipment. In Ficksburg, Clocolan and
Marquard the problem is mainly due to low rainfall in the area causing the dams and the
Caledon River to dry up.
Due to the acute water shortages that have led to some communities of Senekal and
Marquard protesting violently and destroying municipal property, which also led to the
death of a community member Mr Tatane, short to medium term options were also
investigated which led to the drilling of boreholes in all four mentioned towns. It is
understood that these boreholes are only meant to augment the surface water systems
during the dry periods but, by themselves, do not have enough capacity to provide the
long term supply solutions.
The Municipality also embarked on upgrading and refurbishing various bulk water facilities
through the Municipal Infrastructure Grant. For example, the upgrading of the Ficksburg
Water purification Plant, the Upgrading of the Marquard Water Purification plant and the
completion of the Clocolan to Marquard Raw Water Supply line.
The projects for supply of portable water planned to be sufficient till year 2030 are still on
the planning and approval phases and these are the major projects being funded through
the Regional Bulk Infrastructure Grant.
Figure 1: Locality Plan
2.3
Project concept, design and plan
The purpose of the Setsoto Regional Bulk Scheme is to provide the four towns of Setsoto
LM with potable water e.g. the towns are Ficksburg, Clocolan, Marquard and Senekal.
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Each town with its on water supply requirements for now and in 20 years time, the
planning commenced in 2009 therefore the 2010- 2030 period is applicable.
Below is a table indicating the Population figures and water demand requirements for
each town in 2010 and 2030 as mentioned already:
Table 1: Population figures
TOWN
Population Figures ATRS
2010
Population Figures ATRS
2030
Demand 2010
(million m3/annum)
Demand 2030
(million m3/annum)
FICKSBURG
CLOCOLAN
MARQUARD
SENEKAL
36895
16117
13795
27453
46486
22676
17386
33848
2.72
1.26
1.02
4,75
4.84
2.81
1.84
9,74
The targeted categories of consumers to be supplied with portable water are domestic
users, commercial and light industrial and institutional users in all the four towns
mentioned above.
The methodology that was adopted in the Feasibility Study stage of the RBIG project was
to review the existing raw water and portable water systems throughout the four towns,
secondly to review and identify what other water supply initiatives and projects were
already being implemented by the Municipality and external funders, e.g. MIG through
COGTA.
It became clear at this stage that the existing systems, both raw water and portable water,
would not meet the water demands in 20 years time from 2010 for all four towns. The
municipality continued to implement some short term to medium term projects whilst the
RBIG project was still in feasibility approval stage, e.g. the construction of boreholes in
Senekal through MIG funding and the upgrading of the portable water reservoirs in
Ficksburg, the upgrading of the water purification plant in Marquard, the installation of
boreholes also in Ficksburg, Clocolan and Marquard.
The conclusions and recommendations drawn from the feasibility studies were the
following:
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Ficksburg gets is raw water supply from the Caledon River and it is augmented by
water from the Meulspruit Dam. However, in 2030 both these supply systems will
not be sufficient to meet the demand as depicted in the population and demand
table above.
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A recommendation was made to look at alternative options for raw water supply:
1.
2.
3.
First was the possibility of raising the Meulspruit Dam by two meters
Second was the construction of the Rosendal Dam under the Dihlabeng Local
Municipality RBIG projects and jurisdiction
Lastly was the Supply of Raw Water from the Caledon River to Meulspruit
Dam through a pump station and pipeline system. This last option was the
one considered after many deliberations concerning the other two options. It
is the system that would also address the Clocolan and Marquard demand
shortages in the long term as it would augment the already existing systems
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and utilise part of the infrastructure already installed from Meulspruit Dam to
Clocolan WPP then to Marquard WPP.
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Clocolan has two raw water supply systems namely, the Moperi Dam and a pipeline
T-off from a supply system that starts in Meulspruit through a series of pump
stations, rising mains, balancing tanks and pipe systems mentioned above.
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The major problem experienced by Clocolan is that when there is low rainfall in the
area, first the Moperi dam runs empty then eventually the bigger Meulspruit Dam
follows suit as was seen during the summer of 2011 and 2012. Once these two
dams reach a level below the extraction outlet then these systems become ineffective to supply.
Figure 1: Moperi Dam
Figure 2: Meulspruit Dam
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Marquard is supplied on a similar system as Clocolan; its primary raw water supply
system is the Nuwe Hoop Dam and Lucretia Earth Dam augmented by the same
pipeline system from Meulspruit. Similarly when this town experiences low rainfalls,
the two dams dry up and consequently when the Meulspruit dries up, there is severe
water shortage in the area similar to Clocolan.
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The town of Senekal is on a completely different system and has different problems
altogether. Senekal has two supply systems, first being the supply from the Sand
River weir into the Cyferfontein Earth Dam. This raw water supply system also runs
empty and the water purification plants are very old with obsolete components of
1961, 1974 and 1991. The old plants present a very high risk when there is a
mechanical or electrical breakdown acquisition of spares which has proved to be
very difficult.
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Figure 3: Cyferfontein Dam
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2.
3.
4.
Figure 4: De Put Dam
The recommendation on this system has been the upgrading of the oldest
WPP.
The second system is on the Sandspruit or Sandsloot stream. Similarly on this
system water is pumped from the weir into the De Put Earth Dam.
On a number of occasions the river to Earth Dam pumps and transformer have
been stolen and vandalised. This has left the municipality without raw water
supply for over six months causing severe water shortages. Water could not be
pumped into the earth dam, and thus the dam ran empty and no water could be
pumped to the Deput Purification plant. This happened during the heavy rainy
season and an opportunity was lost to extract water from the Sandspruit
stream, leaving the earth dam empty when the dry season arrived.
The third water purification plant purifying water from this De-Put system is also
very old, underperforming and requires a major upgrade.
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Lastly, the Senekal portable water reservoirs only have a 9 Mℓ storage
capacity which only lasts for about 24 hrs. This is half of what is
recommended for.
Recommendations for Senekal was for a Hydrology Study to be
undertaken to first determine if the existing infrastructure and catchment
arrears could be improved to deal with the current to 2030 demands.
Sinske consult (a hydrology specialist) was appointed in August 2012 and
in February 2013 his study was completed indicating that the best
possible solution for Senekal was the raising of the Sandspruit Weir by
3.5 meters to create another holding raw water reservoir and increase the
weir capacity from 47 million litres to 2.2 million cubic litres.
Therefore, four categories of projects were identified and prioritised:
Ground Water Assessment and Installation
A decision was taken to conduct ground water assessments within a radius of 10 km in
each town, including Municipal land and private land where agreements were reached.
Geohydrological Specialists would be appointed and Contractors would be appointed
where the studies confirmed water bearing structures of a sustainable level. These GWA’s
were conducted in all four towns and resulted in boreholes being drilled and equipped in
the four towns of Ficksburg, Clocolan, Marquard and Senekal.
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Raw Water Supply Systems: Various Options Identified
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Raising of the Meulspruit Dam by 2 meters, this option was not feasible due to the
foundations condition of the current dam.
The design and construction of the Rosendal Dam to primarily supply the Dihlabeng
towns of Rosendal and Paul Roux. The remaining capacity would be in storage and
through controlled spillages would be used to augment the capacity of Meulspruit
Dam.
The extraction and supply of raw water from the Caledon Dam to the Meulspruit
Dam. This system was further confirmed by the study done by WRP who were
appointed by MOL PRO Consulting to look at the availability of water in the Caledon
River system and the impact of drawing more water from other streams. This
system would constitute an extraction pump station, sand removal and a rising main
of three kilometres to the Meulspruit Dam. It would then augment the shortage of
supply to Ficksburg, Clocolan and Marquard through the pump stations and piping
systems to all of the three towns.
The second raw water supply project is in Senekal.
First option being the original supply of water from the Dihlabeng Water purification
plant via a series of rising mains, gravity mains and pressure tanks over a distance
of approximately 80 km,
Second was the supply of raw water from the Rosendal Dam via a series of pump
stations, rising mains, gravity mains, and pressure tanks over a distance of
approximately 40 km.
Lastly, as recommended through the hydrological study conducted in Senekal in
2012, the raising of the Sandspruit Weir by 3.5 meters would increase the storage
capacity from 47 million litres to 2.2 million cubic litres. This would turn this weir into
another major raw water storage facility. At completion of the raising of the dam, a
new pump station and piping system would be constructed to supply an upgraded or
new Water Purification Plant with a minimum of 6.4 Mℓ/day.
Bulk Portable Water Systems (Short to Medium Term Solutions)
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The initial recommendation is to upgrade the oldest 1961 Cyferfontein Water
Purification Plant and get it to operate at the design capacity of 3.2 Mℓ/day.
Do repair and maintenance of the mechanical equipment and concrete structures on
the second 1991 Cyferfontein Water Purification Plant to bring it to the design
capacity of 3.2 Mℓ/day.
Bulk Portable Water Systems (Long Term Solutions)
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2.4
Increase the capacity of the portable water storage tanks from current 9 Mℓ holding
capacity to 18 Mℓ Capacity for the 48 hr storage recommendation
Consider the combination of all three old and semi-new water purification plants into
one 9 Mℓ purification plant at a central position between the two raw water and
purification systems situated almost 12 km apart; convert the current clean water
piping systems from Cyferfontein to raw water supply systems. The benefit of this
option being the upgrading of the obsolete purification plants with assured spares
availability and renewed operating and maintenance procedures.
Start date duration of the program:
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The four Thabo Mofutsanyana forums of Municipal Managers appointed Mol Pro
Consulting amongst other consultants in March 2009 to complete the Feasibility
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2.4
Study on the Setsoto Water Requirements. At completion of the FS and the IRS in
October 2010, a budget of R89 million was estimated.
In June 2011 Setsoto and DWS appointed Bloem Water as its implementing agent
for the installation of boreholes in Ficksburg, Clocolan and Marquard and Isa and
Partners in Senekal
In June 2012 Setsoto appointed Mol Pro Consulting as its service provider for the
implementation of the RBIG projects as per the annual budget allocation; the
estimated time always depends on the available budget of that fiscal year.
Annually DWS advises the Setsoto Local Municipality of its allocation and budget for
that financial year.
The start of construction projects will only be known when all necessary WULA and
Dam Construction approvals have been finalised.
Funds previously allocated to project
Table 2 indicates funds previously allocated.
Table 2: Funding for the past 3 financial years
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
Approved
budget
R10 000 000 R10 000 000 R10 000 000
amount
Spent
budget
R13 650 200 R9 994 778
R3 999 921
amount
2014/15
TOTAL
R20 000 000
R44 000 000
0
R27 644 899
The Co-funding streams are:
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3.
: R151 009 115 (Water Supply projects only)
: R89 000 000 (RBIG Projects)
PROGRESS TO DATE
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3.1
Local Municipality (MIG)
Province (DWS)
There has been no progress for quarter 3.
Implementation of the approved business plan
In its capacity as Implementing Agent, Setsoto Local Municipality has appointed its own
staff through the Project Management Unit (PMU) to provide specialised professional
services, financial management and administrative support to the project.
In March 2009 the forum of Municipal Managers in the Thabo Mofutsanyana District
appointed a Consortium of Professional Service Providers to undertake Regional
Feasibility and Implementation readiness studies for the four municipalities namely
Setsoto, Dihlabeng, Phumelela and Nketoana Local Municipalities.
MOL PRO Consulting was assigned by the Setsoto Local Municipality. The Feasibility
Study and IRS was conducted and completed in September 2010.
The Studies and a budget of R89 million (RBIG) was estimated and other (MIG) funded to
the value of R152 million were also estimated in October 2010.
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At the completion and approval of the FS and IRS however, Mol Pro Consulting services
were deemed to have been completed, and it was mentioned that the appointment of
implementing agents was not automatic.
In April 2011 Setsoto Local Municipality, DWS (Provincial) and Bloem Water reached a
tripartite agreement and Bloem Water was appointed as the implementing agent to utilise
a portion of the RBIG funds to install Boreholes in the Ficksburg, Clocolan and Marquard
towns. This was to assist and address the acute shortage of water supply from the
surface water systems due to drought.
In June 2012, Mol Pro Consulting was re-appointed by Setsoto Local Municipality in
agreement with DWS to be the implementing service provider for the projects that were
originally recommended in the feasibility study and IRS.
Below are two tables indicating further activities and specialist, sub consultancy
appointments by Mol Pro Consulting approved by the Setsoto Local Municipality.
Table 3: Milestones
Raising of the Sandspruit Weir – De Put
Table 3: indicates the milestones of the raising of the Sandspruit Weir
one of the long term solutions for the water supply of Senekal.
Planned date for
Name of Organization completion
Product
compiling/ developing
FS/IRS/Design/EIA
Feasibility Study
Mol Pro
Mar 2010
at De Put which is
Date
FS/IRS/Design/EIA
approved
Oct 2010
Implementation
Readiness Study
Mol Pro
Sep 2010
Oct 2010
Hydrological
Studies
Sinske Consult
July 2012
Feb 2013
Preliminary Design
Mol Pro / Arq Consulting
Engineers
Aug 2013
In Process
EIA
JISE Environmental
Engineers
May 2013
Aug 2013
WULA
JISE Environmental
Engineers
Feb 2013
In Process
Designs
Mol Pro/ ARQ Consulting
Engineers
At WULA Approval
Caledon to Meulspruit raw water pipeline
Table 4 indicates the milestones of the Caledon to Meulspruit pipeline which will address
the long term supply of Ficksburg, Clocolan and Marquard.
Table 4: Milestones
Product
Feasibility Study
Planned date for
Name of Organization completion
compiling/ developing
FS/IRS/Design/EIA
Mol Pro
Mar 2010
Date
FS/IRS/Design/EIA
approved
Oct 2010
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Product
Implementation
Readiness Study
Planned date for
Name of Organization completion
compiling/ developing
FS/IRS/Design/EIA
Mol Pro
Sep 2010
Date
FS/IRS/Design/EIA
approved
Oct 2010
Caledon
River WRP Consulting
System Analysis
Feb 2013
Mar 2013
Preliminary Design
Mol Pro/ V&V Consulting
Mar 2013
Mar 2013
EIA
JISE Environmental
Engineers
Mar 2013
May 2013
WUL
JISE Environmental
Engineers
Feb 2014
In Process
Design
Mol Pro / V&V
Consulting Engineers
At WULA Approval
Currently the Caledon – Meulspruit project is in the WULA approval stage, the
environmental Specialist JISE is addressing some further queries and requirements as
issued by the Department.
Designs are complete and as soon as WULA approval is obtained, the municipality can
go out on construction tender.
The EIA approval of the raising of the Sandspruit Weir in De Put was obtained much later
in the 2013 year (August 2013) in September 2013 ARQ consulting, (Specialist Dam
Engineers with APP’s) were appointed due to the complexity of the dam design. Further
studies and detailed Geotechnical investigations were conducted. These were completed
at the beginning of December 2013, thereafter, and an Options Analysis Report was
compiled and submitted. One option was identified and selected as the most possible
option which met all the minimum requirements for design, construction and safety. This
was the option upon which the detailed designs and design report, cost estimation and
implementation program has been drawn.
At submission of WULA application in August 2013, DWS made it clear through a letter
written to the EIA specialists that the WULA application will only be further processed /
approved once DWS as received detailed designs of the raising of the wall.
In February 2013 the detailed designs and design report were completed and submitted
to the following Institutions:
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Setsoto Local Municipality and DWS (Provincial) for their assessment and comment
as well as the WULA requirements stipulated in September 2013.
The National Dam Safety Office accompanied by the application to construct the
dam.
The DSO has corresponded that it requires the WULA approval to process the permit to
construct.
There has been no further correspondence on the WULA submission although the
correspondence on the Technical side is in progress.
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3.2
Schedules of work and phasing of the activities
There are two major components of projects running in parallel to complete all the
required approval processes.
Setsoto Local Municipality has however indicated that in the order of priorities that the
Senekal Solution is more critical and takes first priority.
Phase 1 was the installation of boreholes in Ficksburg, Clocolan, Marquard and Senekal
including the other MIG funded projects. The agreed Senekal Solution will be considered
as Phase 2 of the scheme.
Phase 3 will be the construction of the Caledon to Meulspruit pipeline.
3.3
Risks taken and management thereof
As the Scheme comprises new infrastructure, no risks has been encountered yet.
However when the project reaches the construction phase a detailed risk analysis and risk
management plan will have to be undertaken.
3.4
Capacities dedicated to the programme
The capacities dedicated to the programme are as follows:
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3.5
Water Services Authority – Setsoto Local Municipality
Water Services Provider – Setsoto Local Municipality
Funding Authority – DWS – RBIG & COGTA - MIG
Regulator – DWS.
Overall Programme and Project Management – Setsoto Local Municipality (PMU)
Specialized professional services, financial management and administrative
support – Setsoto Local Municipality.
Planning, Design, contract administration – various professional service providers;
Mol Pro Consulting, Sinske Consult, Van Breda and Associates, Geodetic South
Africa, JIS Environmental Engineers, WRP Consulting, ARQ Consulting
Engineers, V and V Consulting Engineers and GHT.
Construction work: Boreholes – Bloem Water (2011), Boreholes (2012) GHT, AB
Pumps, Construction of the security building for the stolen pumps and transformer
on De Put, Mol Pro Con Architects, C-Pac Pumps and Lonestar Construction.
No contractor appointments have been made on the Caledon to Meulspruit
pipeline as well as the raising of the Sandspruit Weir projects.
Key challenges within the project
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In the Feasibility Study, the costing of the projects was in 2010 monitory value but
the implementation of projects may take longer and the original cost estimates
may be slightly different due to annual price increases.
Setsoto has had acute water shortages which resulted in obtaining some of the
RBIG funds to assist in sorting out the short term crisis issues.
The legislative approval processes are lengthy and no construction can take place
unless approvals are obtained from the Department of Environmental Affairs and
Tourism and the Department of Water and Sanitation.
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The Geotechnical investigation and additional surveying on the De Put Dam
project took longer than originally anticipated thus delaying the submission of the
designs and design report by two months.
The submission of the WULA application for the Caledon to Meulspruit pipeline by
the Environmental Specialist has also taken much longer than anticipated.
4.
PROJECT RESULTS AND BENEFICIARIES
4.1
Outcomes and outputs
Currently the expected outputs are no longer on track as it was planned and anticipated
that in this financial year 2014/15 all approvals would have been completed and that the
municipality would have gone on tender in April, latest by June 2014. Construction can
not start until this phase is concluded.
4.2
Beneficiaries and project results
As stated in previous sections, the ultimate aim of the total scheme is to supply sufficient
water to these communities of Setsoto, the planning horizon being 20 years.
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4.3
Ficksburg/ Meqheleng - 36 865 people
Clocolan/ Hlohloloane – 16 117 people
Marquard Moemaneng – 1 3795 people
Senekal / Matwabeng – 27 453 People
Jobs Created
None on the major projects yet.
5.
CONCLUSION / LESSONS LEARNED
5.1
Main successes and failures of the project to date
It can be said that the EIA permits which are foundations and cornerstones of this projects
have been obtained, however, the challenge or the failure is not obtaining the WULA
approvals within the 2013/14 financial year.
5.2
Ownership and sustainability of infrastructure
All infrastructures already installed e.g. boreholes, pumps and piping networks, extraction
pumps and transformers, security buildings, and future installations, these are ultimately
all properties of the Setsoto Local Municipality.
It is imperative that the Municipality is actively involved at all the stages of the project from
planning to construction and operation. To date the municipality has demonstrated
commitment to the project.
The processes of planning design and application for approvals are lengthy and no matter
how frustrated or impatient the communities or various stakeholders get, these processes
will not be bypassed. Any means to assist in speeding up the processes will be sought.
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6.
RECOMMENDATIONS
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It is recommended that urgent attention be paid to the key challenges listed under
Section 3.5 above.
In particular the approval of the WULA application for the raising of the weir project
as it is a pre-requisite for the DSO to grant the permit to construct and the
approval of the dam design.
The completion and addressing of WULA queries on the Caledon to Meulspruit
pipeline project.
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ANNEXURE A: PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PHOTOS
No progress on next phases
ANNEXURE B: LIST OF TOWNS AND TOWNSHIPS EXPECTED TO BENEFIT
Ficksburg/ Meqheleng - 36865 people
Clocolan/ Hlohloloane – 16117 people
Marquard Moemaneng – 13795 people
Senekal / Matwabeng – 27453 People
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ANNEXURE C: DETAILS OF CONTRACTS AWARDED UNDER PHASE 2 (NON YET)
PROJECT COMPLETED
ANNEXURE D: PROJECT SCHEDULE
PROJECT COMPLETED
ANNEXURE E: DETAILS OF JOB OPPORTUNITIES
PROJECT COMPLETED