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National Treasury approved R55 Million rollover grant to boost NMBM water projects to mitigate drought disaster

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The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has welcomed the approved R55 million roll-over grant by the National Treasury to the City to further boost the City’s drought mitigation plans amid the persistent drought that has resulted in total dam levels currently standing at a low 18.97%.

National Treasury Deputy Director-General: Inter-governmental Relations, Malijeng Ngqaleni said in a letter sent to the City on 19 October 2022, the amount was to fund the Motherwell and Stanford Road Booster Pump Stations: Improvements and Installation of new pump sets.

NMBM Executive Mayor, Cllr Retief Odendaal said the disaster relief grant was much needed by the City to boost the Nooitgedagt water treatment works and groundwater resources schemes which seeks to avert Day Zero from becoming a reality.

He said: “The Motherwell and Stanford Road pump stations were constructed in 2014 as part of the Nooitgedagt/ Coega Low Level Scheme. These pump stations boost the pressure in the pipeline to ensure supply to the western areas of our City. Currently the Motherwell booster pump station is limited to about 90megalitres per day and the Stanford Road booster pump station is limited to about 100megalitres per day.”

“They urgently require to be upgraded to 120 megalitres and 135 megalitres per day transfer capacity respectively, to enable them to transfer the balance of 210 megalitres per day that is not used in the eastern areas when Nooitgedagt phase 3 works is completed. The work has started at both sites and we expect the completion of the work in September 2023.”

Mayor Odendaal said without the approval of the rollover, NMBM would not have been able to honour the committed costs towards completing the work.

“As a City we have also committed our own funding towards the project,” the Mayor added.

The scope of work for the projects entail:

Construction of new variable speed drive rooms
Construction of new medium voltage transformer rooms
Supply and installation of two new pumps and motor sets
Supply and installation of new variable speed drives and motor control centres

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