Hennops Revival clean up river area in Clubview before more flooding occurs
"We removed 2 000 bags of waste in three days."
Hennops Revival had their Wetlands Month clean-up over a three-day period last week from Thursday to Saturday in Clubview.
According to the founder, Tarryn Johnston, “Poly mountain has been washed away from the floods on Sunday and in all probability has joined Poly-Island further downstream”.
Johnston said the ground is still saturated from the recent rains and flooding thus water can’t be absorbed and rivers will automatically be more susceptible to flooding.
She warned residents to avoid low-lying bridges in Centurion when it rains, “as a number of them flooded again on Sunday night and there was debris all over the roads”.
“We were pleased that we have at least removed 596 bags of waste from the Hennops River on the first day, 1 068 bags on the second day, and 336 bags on the third day, before a lot of waste was washed once again downstream due to flooding of the area.
“That is 2 000 bags of waste removed in three days. BluSwirl Recycling, who volunteered over the three-day period, sent us the recycling tallies that have been taken out of the river.”
She said one bag consisted entirely of unused condoms.
“We also found nappies, a bag of aerosol cans, and more than one bag of lost soles or shoes.”
Johnston said that there were 9kg of bottle caps, different kinds of polyester such as 36kg PET-G, 73kg of PET-C, 15kg of Pp, 15kg of LDPE-C (polyethylene), 13kg of HDPE-C and HDPE-W respectively, 7kg Pp woven, 18kg of LDPE-C, 31kg of PET-J and 14kg steel cans, removed.
“The polystyrene was taken to be recycled,” Johnston said.
“Fresh drinking water was consistently sponsored by Oasis Water for Irene for our clean-ups from the very beginning and all attendees were also given a delicious lunch from Rebels Pizza.
She said a special personalised donation of 300 “Hennops Revival” branded fresh bottled water were sponsored by #GoZone water, Simarlo Park.
“We also had an amazing group of volunteers from Hoërskool Zwartkop, Midstream College, Sutherland High School and Scouts join us today for community service hours. And numerous volunteers from the community.
“A group of volunteers from Don’t Waste joined us for the day and we extend our gratitude to Tayfin Auditors Estate for allowing us to use their premises as the point of entry and base camp and for the generous donation made towards the clean-up.”
Johnston thanked the HisHouse Church for allowing them to use their ablutions and premises for sorting and collecting the waste.
“Our MMC for Environment councillors Katlego Mathebe and Ina Strijdom also joined us and we thank them for their special interest in this project.
“Thanks to Thabo Tshukudu, Buurman Magaela from Tshwane mayor’s office and to Edwin Khotsia from the waste department, and Elijah Ngwetsana from water and sanitation department for assisting us with transport for the three-day period.”
She also gave a big shout-out to the Hennops Revival crew for their continued hard work, and much gratitude for the donations from the community members and from #Sharetrack.
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