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Meeting date: 25/04/2019
Meeting date: 21 September 2017
• Mr C Mubadiro of Water & Sanitation reported on the distinction between grey water and treated effluent water and also gave background on this. He said that grey water is used mainly in households i.e. from the sink and washing machines that people can re-used for flushing of toilets or other activities. Treated effluent your water after the final treatment of waste water that will be ready to be discharged in the river will be treated to an approved standard. Treated effluent has been used since the 1950’s is seen as a secondary source of water until recently with the drought that is experienced. There are more than 200 companies that have permanent pipeline connections, schools, golf courses who are connected to treated effluent water.
• They have expanding their network from the waste water and is growing up a spiral. Then there are few companies that have done their own connections for e.g. Century City, farmers etc. and they pay a reduce tariff and then recover their cost. Where the City does the installation they will pay a higher tariff.
• The Macassar Pump Station that supplies the whole area was redesigned and they did an extensive connection to Sitari.
• With the drought it is going to change and more people that previously rejected this, will be using treated effluent water and they have a big backlog.
• They don’t have funding as yet and if people want to wait for the City, they will have to wait 3 years. He said that customers have come to them with their own designs and submit to the developers with their own costs and install the infrastructure, then they will cover their money from a reduced tariffs and entering a contract in which their investments is recovered by a lower tariff. They have two tariffs i.e R5 for the normal people and those with a reduced tariff it would cost R1.50.
• Further to this permanent connections, they also started a process of industries and business coming to collect the treated effluent from various waste water places and they have also started installing 25 treated effluent drop off points city wide. In this area there are two drop off points and will have another 4 drop off points so that they can improve the way in which people can collect effluent treated for their different industrial uses so at least with this drought they can lower the negative impact on the use of treated effluent.
• Cllr Peck wanted to know if people want to install it themselves, where do they apply and who do they contact.
RESOLVED
a) That the official send through his contact details to the Sub-council office for dissemination to the Councillors, organizations, the public as well as the media with this kind of initiative to save water.
b) That the item be REMOVED from the Matters Receiving Attention.
Meeting date: 18 August 2017
• Goodman Rorwana reported that latest feedback received from the department that they will provide the outcome in September 2017.
RESOLVED
That the item REMAIN on the Matters Receiving Attention.
Meeting date: 22 June 2017
• Goodman Rorwana reported that latest feedback received from the department that they will provide the outcome in September 2017.
RESOLVED
That the item REMAIN on the Matters Receiving Attention.
Meeting date: 17 March 2017
RESOLVED
That the motion submitted by Cllr G Peck be SUPPORTED and that the Sub-Council 24 approaches the water and Sanitation Department to investigate the possibility of a pipe line to supply grey water to Helderberg Village for use on the golf course on the estate.
MOVER: Cllr G Peck and was SECONDED by Cllr V Isaacs.
FOR ACTION: GOODMAN RORWANA
