UPDATE: ‘Overdue’ north quarry upgrades on track

The “long overdue” plans to put the Bon Accord quarry into operation are on schedule a month into the project.

Tshwane mayor Stevens Mokgalapa said the cost of the upgrades to the quarry were determined before a tender opened to the public.

“The tender is undergoing supply chain management processes,” he said.

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He announced the metro’s plans to operationalise the quarry during his 100 days in office address in June.

“The metro has set aside R30-million for the Bon Accord quarry in the 2019/20 financial year,” Mokgalapa said at the time.

“This decision is long overdue.”

The quarry was established in 1904 to provide material for building roads.

Mokgalapa said the decision to upgrade the quarry was informed by a study in 1999 which “found a reserve of five million cubic metres of usable norite rock which will last the city for more than 30 years”.

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Mokgalapa said that the stone crusher plant was built more than 40 years ago, and refurbished “a long time ago”, while the second asphalt plant was established almost 30 years ago, and refurbished in 1999.

In 2018, the metro was faced with a pothole repair backlog due to an asphalt shortage.

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