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NMBM successfully opens three groundwater sites to alleviate pressure from depleting dams

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The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has successfully opened the R50.9 Million Moregrove Wellfields boreholes projects which seeks to alleviate pressure and augment water supply from its severely stressed dams, as the City continues to battle a severe drought.
 
The project which started last year is now complete and is producing more than four Megalitres a day to consumers including households and businesses that are supplied by the Fort Nottingham, Glendinning and Fairview Reservoirs.

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During the official opening of the sites on Thursday, 13 October 2022, Executive Mayor, Cllr Retief Odendaal said: “We are doing our best to ensure that we conserve our water resources, we fix the leaks, pipes, and building infrastructure that will bring us more water but we also want to request our residents and businesses to do their part to save and manage water use.”
 
“We are still grappling with a very intense drought and these augmenting projects are very important for sustainable water supply in Nelson Mandela Bay. We have to ensure water security if we are to survive as citizens, and if we want attract investment and create sustainable jobs to our City. We are currently faced with a huge risk, because no business will invest in a City where there is no water security.”
 
Mayor Odendaal was joined by Deputy Mayor, Cllr Mkhuseli Jack and MMC for Infrastructure and Engineering, Cllr Dries van der Westhuyzen during the opening at the Glendinning Wellfield.
 
NMBM Senior Director: Water and Sanitation, Barry Martin committed that more borehole projects were currently under construction as part of the City’s drought mitigation plans.

“From the Moregrove Wellfields project alone, we have 11 boreholes from the three sites. These borehole projects, including the one under construction in St George’s Park entail the construction of infrastructure required to abstract, treat, and distribute the groundwater into the NMBM bulk water supply system.

“They are expected to be complete by the end of the year, and that will ease the demand on the dams as our dams are decreasing again as we have not been getting the much-needed rainfall. We are still in danger zone as far as the drought is concern, that is why we need all water users, inclusive of businesses and residents to reduce their consumption,” said Martin.

Deputy Mayor, Mkhuseli Jack and Executive Mayor Retief Odendaal
Deputy Mayor, Mkhuseli Jack and Executive Mayor Retief Odendaal

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