Sewer project starts up again
The project was halted by tragedy just before the Covid-19 pandemic.
A project to upgrade the Fochville sewerage network is up and going again after it stalled for several years due to a tragic accident.
An employee of the Merafong City Local Municipality’s previous contractor died in November 2019 when the trench he was working on on the side of Danie Theron Street collapsed. They were busy replacing the sewer pipeline next to the street as part of a project to upgrade the sewerage infrastructure in the Greenspark, Fochville and Kokosi area.
The work had stalled since then, but a new contractor started at the site recently. The pipeline that is being replaced stretches to Kokosi and the entrance to Danie Theron
Street is temporary closed at times due to the digging next to it.
“The Fochville outfall sewer project’s purpose is to resolve the sewer spillages the municipality’s water section is experiencing on the existing sewer infrastructure that cannot
handle the load due to its capacity,” says the municipality’s marketing and communications
manager, Temba Fezani.
He also commented on the fact that heaps of concrete manholes and covers have been laying at the Kokosi Business Hive for more than a month.
“The manholes stored at Kokosi Business Hive is for the manhole replacement project,
which is not the same scope as Fochville outfall sewer. The municipality is replacing all damaged manholes in Merafong to better the service delivery.
“Identified manholes has no lids, rings are damaged, storm water ingress the sewer system,
some are broken and allow unwanted objects to enter the systems and that results to numbers of sewer blockages. The project will eliminate the sewer blockages complaints,” Fezani said.
