With winter approaching, the City's Water and Sanitation Directorate has been busy preparing its infrastructure and systems for the rainy season, which typically brings more stormwater into its networks.
With winter approaching, the City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate has been busy preparing its infrastructure and systems for the rainy season, which typically brings more stormwater into its networks.The City’s Water and Sanitation teams have been working proactively throughout the year to implement maintenance programmes, increasing their efforts as the winter approaches to ensure that its networks of sewer pipes, pump stations, and river systems are ready for rain.
‘City teams will continue to monitor its operations and infrastructure where possible even throughout winter and will deploy teams to reported incidents where needed. In the meantime, extensive work has been done across Cape Town in various areas and these efforts will continue,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Water and Sanitation Zahid Badroodien.
Proactive work includes cleaning litter traps/booms, ponds, canals, and culverts and monitoring them for additional cleaning as needed to avoid blockages that could cause flooding. Cleaning methods vary depending on the site, such as removing vegetation , silt, and litter, as well as dredging, which uses excavators and bulldozers to remove accumulated sediments/silt deposits.
Human behaviour is responsible for approximately 80% of sewer overflows, with items such as rags, feminine hygiene products, builders’ rubble, litter, fats and oils, and even cutlery being illegally dumped into the network via toilets, sinks, and manholes. The city has even removed a television and auto parts from our sewer lines. These waste items should not be in the sewer network, but when they do, sewers overflow into our streets.
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