TO improve the quality of water in the district, Ugu municipality has launched a water safety plan development, which was approved by council on Thursday.
It will involve a water quality management plan, and a process to ensure quality drinking water. The municipality will review its previous water safety plan to measure improvements in the reduction of risks over the next five years.
A team of civil engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, process controllers and environmentalists will be put together to improve management procedures to deal with any threats.
The team of experts will also do desktop studies of site risk assessments and individual site visits to confirm the credibility of site specific desktop studies on risk assessments.
Some of the challenges facing Ugu’s water plants are that most water treatment works are producing beyond capacity which is a big risk to the quality of water.
The unsecured power supply from some of the water treatment works and frequent mechanical and electrical faults also cause a threat to water quality.
The municipality will also look into improving security in all its plants, by ensuring that the plants are securely fenced.
For the next three years 80 percent of the risks are planned to be mitigated by outlaying R184 962 500. These funds include the current upgrades occurring at Bhobhoyi water treatment works, the proposed upgrade of Mthamvuna and the current construction of Mhlabatshane.
