AFTER an appeal made by the North Durban honorary officers for help to fill in large holes and damaged tarmac on roads in the Beachwood Mangroves Nature Reserve, two local companies stepped up to assist.

Riverside Hotel Durban and Claycon Construction offered their help and will be donating five tons of sand and two tons of crusher. They will also help in rolling and compacting to smooth over the damaged ground.

In May this year, the honorary officers made an appeal for soil or gravel to help fill in large holes and damaged tarmac at the access roads in the reserve.

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Home to the biggest population of mangrove trees in Durban, the roads within the 76-hectare reserve had been adversely affected by heavy rains and storms over several months.

Honorary officer Robbie Ramkumar said he was blown away as the hotel also made a commitment to help with another refurbishment project at the reserve.

“Both Riverside Hotel and Claycon were kind enough to answer our call for help. We host an open morning once every month at the reserve, and the entrance road, as well as two access roads to the accommodation and the education centre, were damaged by the rains. To not only get the material, but to also have the work done in terms of compacting and levelling, is a huge help.

“When the team arrived at the reserve one of our officers did a presentation highlighting its importance and one of the other refurbishment projects we hope to complete is the entrance fence which is dilapidated. Again, without hesitation the hotel stepped in and said they would help us with this project. It is not something we expected but we are grateful to them for this help and we hope that by the next open morning, the compacting and levelling will be complete,” he said.

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