City’s R53m reservoir complete
THE construction of a R53 million reservoir in Durbanville is complete with the plant providing an additional 35 million litres of water to the city.
The reservoir was built next to the existing 15 million litre reservoir.
The two reservoirs are connected, creating a single, 50 million litre unit for the Durbanville area.
The City of Cape Town said investing in large-scale water infrastructure projects remains important.
“This reservoir will feed Fisantekraal, which includes the Greenville Garden Cities housing development, the greater Durbanville area and the higher-lying areas in Brackenfell, among other areas. It is absolutely necessary that we invest in and maintain our water infrastructure.
“Such water projects are funded by tariffs that are used to provide reliable water services provision to our growing city,” the mayoral committee member for Area North, Suzette Little, said.
“Its design work started in July 2014. The construction period was 18 months and was completed in November 2017.”
She said this will enhance service delivery infrastructure planning in communities.
Meanwhile, more than 5 million litres of water was released in Hermon, just outside Wellington.
The water will feed the Misverstand dam and will continue for seven days.
Last week, the Department of Water and Sanitation said there was a possibility that the Misverstand Dam near Moorreesburg in the Western Cape could run out of water by tomorrow.