Randpark Ridge Village Association cleans up and revamps 4 substations
It costs the residents association R5 000 to renovate each of its subtations.
Four substations in Randpark Ridge are currently undergoing makeovers thanks to the Randpark Ridge Village Association.
This includes the removal of weeds and cutting bushes and trees back, before digging trenches to allow for water drainage, as some doors and walls of substations are damaged due to the build-up of water.
Sometimes water even gets into the substations when it rains, which is very dangerous.
Association chairperson Quinton Robbertze said his team next sprays the soil to kill weeds, before placing down weed cloth to keep weeds from growing before spreading aggregate on the ground.
“When we attend to these substations we also fix security, which means the gates,” he said.
“We rebuilt the swing gate of the one substation and cemented the pole in, and locks will soon follow to secure them from people living there.”
He said to do these for one substation costs R5 000.
So to do so for four substations is expensive, but it means less maintenance has to be done.
Workers employed by the association will still go every month or two to clean up the substations.
All this ‘for it to look a bit better and fitting better into the neighbourhood so it does not become an eye-sore”, Robbertze concluded.
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