Waste Water Treatment Works and Laboratory and Cleansing Services
This section consists of the subsections Waste Water Treatment Works and Laboratory and
Cleansing Services.
Waste Water Treatment Works and Laboratory
The mission of this subsection is to receive and treat all sewerage and waste water received at all Waste Water Treatment Works in a sustainable manner to the legal requirements in order not to pollute any receiving source.
This subsection is responsible for the treatment of waste water generated in the Drakenstein Municipal Area to legislated effluent standards. The laboratory performs control tests on water, waste water and storm water samples. Basic system information is as follows:
- 5 Waste Water Treatment Plants are operated with a total combined average dry weather
flow of 34 Megalitres per day and an average peak weather flow in excess of 85 Megaliters
per day;
- 8 Bulk Sewerage Pump Stations; and
- The Control Laboratory did in excess of 36 000 tests on more than 5 000 samples.
Cleansing Services
The Cleansing Services subsection is responsible for refuse collection services, solid waste disposal and treatment, management of solid waste sites, street sweeping and cleaning of open undeveloped municipal erven.
The mission of this subsection is to meet basic community needs through the provision of affordable and sustainable cleansing services and the provision of a clean and healthy environment.
Basic system information is as follows:
- On average 40 000 refuse removal service points are being serviced weekly;
- 53 000 tons of solid was disposed at the Wellington solid waste disposal site;
- In total 3 700 kilometres of streets were swept during the year; and
- 500 Hectare of open erven were cleaned and mowed.