Aquifer Susceptibility of South Africa
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17° 18° 19° 20° 21° 22° 23° 24° 25° 26° 27° 28° 29° 30° 31° 32° Z I M B A B W E 22° 22° Musina Pafuri Mopane Tshipise Alldays Pundu Maria Swartwater Buysdorp Makhado Thohoyandou Tom Burke Levubu 23° 23° Bochum Elim Shingwedzi Mogwadi Giyani Rebone Ga-Ramokgopa Morebeng Aquifer Susceptibility Lephalale Mooketsi POLOKWANE Tzaneen Bakenberg Mmotong Letsitele Seshego PHALABORWA of Gravellotte Olifants E Mokopane 24° 24° Sentrum Dorpsrivier South Africa Mookgophong Zebediela U Nyl River Valley Penge Hoedspruit B O T S W A N A Mookgophong Ga-Masemola Satara Q Thabazimbi Roedtan I Dwaalboom Modimolle Jane Furse Steelpoort Supingstadt Ohrigstad B Crcodile River Bela-Bela Bushbuckridge Northam Marble Hall Belfast Tloonane Village M Rapotokwane Mashishing Skukuza Siyabuswa Sabie Hazyview Motswedi Ga Mokgatlha Mabeskraal Fafung 25° A 25° Groblersdal Roossenekal Mokgola Bagatla Crocodile River Lehurutshe Soshanguve Z Nossob Moloto Dullstroom Komatipoort Zeerust Swartruggens NELSPRUIT Brits Cullinan Malalane O Ottoshoop Rustenburg Middelburg PRETORIA Bronkhorstspruit Machadodorp Mata-Mata Pomfret Mafikeng Koster Centurion M Tosca eMalahleni Barberton Tarlton Background: Lichtenburg Carolina Badplaas Krugersdorp Kempton Park Implementation of the Reconstruction and Development Programme Piet Plessis Delmas 26° JOHANNESBURG Hendrina 26° Heuningvlei Setlagole Ventersdorp Springs (RDP) in South Africa has highlighted the importance of groundwater Carletonville Coligny Leandra resources in the country as the role they will play in satisfying the targets Heidelberg Secunda Twee Rivieren Stella Sannieshof Bethal of the RDP. As a result, exploration, development and protection of Ganyesa Ermelo Potchefstroom Amsterdam aquifers is receiving unprecedented attention. Provision of the Delareyville Vereeniging Balfour Sasolburg Greylingstad Morgenzon appropriate information to national water resource managers and Rietfontein Ottosdal Klerksdorp SWAZILAND Van Zylsrus Migdol Vryburg Parys Deneysville Standerton planners is a critical part of the process which aims to provide a Askham Vredefort Villiers Amersfoort Piet Retief further twelve million people with adequate access to potable water. Wolmaransstad Viljoenskroon Schweizer-Reneke Koppies Kwangwanase Hotazel Heilbron Frankfort 27° 27° Cornelia Leeudoringstad Data Sources: Bothaville Vrede Volksrust Wakkerstroom Kuruman This map is based on the Borehole Prospects map provided by JR Edenville Tweeling Pongola Noenieput Reivilo Taung Jozini Vegter, Hydrogeological Consultant and AJ Seymour, DWA. N A M I B I A Bloemhof Paulpietersburg Kroonstad Utrecht Mbazwane Kathu Petrus Steyn Memel Mkuze Jan Kempdorp Hoopstad Wesselsbron Reitz Description: Christiana Lindley Warden Newcastle Vryheid Olifantshoek Welkom Steynsrus Nongoma This map indicates the qualitative measure of the relative ease with Ventersburg Arlington Danielskuil Warrenton Hertzogville Virginia Hluhluwe which a groundwater body can be potentially contaminated by Bethlehem Dundee Nqutu Bultfontein Harrismith 28° anthropogenic activities and includes both aquifer vulnerability and the 28° Senekal Kestell Delportshoop UPINGTON Postmasburg Theunissen Paul Roux relative importance of the aquifer in terms of its classification. Babanango Riemvasmaak Sending Winburg Ulundi Witsand Qwaqwa Barkly West Boshof Clarens Ladysmith Mtubatuba Khubus Schmidsdrift Brandfort Fouriesburg Pomeroy Augrabies Keimoes Dealesville Marquard Bergville Melmoth Griekwastad KIMBERLEY Verkeerdevlei Colenso Groblershoop Campbell Ficksburg Manyane Empangeni Alexander Bay Onseepkans Kakamas Winterton Weenen Vioolsdrif Clocolan Susceptibility Matrix Ritchie RICHARD'S BAY Eksteenfontein Excelsior Estcourt Eshowe Douglas BLOEMFONTEIN Kranskop Pella Jacobsdal Petrusburg Thaba Nchu Ladybrand Lekkersing Greytown Pofadder KwaMankonjane 29° Niekerkshoop Mapumulo 29° Kenhardt Botshabelo Mooi River Mandini Aggeneys Marydale Koffiefontein AQUIFER CLASSIFICATION Steinkopf Aq Port Nolloth Hobhouse KwaDukuza Hopetown Reddersburg Howick Dewetsdorp Poor Minor Major Prieska Pietermaritzburg Y Luckhoff Fauresmith Edenburg Wepener Himeville T Springbok L E S O T H O I Kleinsee Strydenburg Bulwer L I Low Low Medium Komaggas Trompsburg Richmond Loop 10 DURBAN B Least 1 2 3 Petrusville A Smithfield Ixopo R Phillipolis 30° E 30° Springfontein Zastron Low Medium High Kamieskroon Vanwyksvlei Umzimkulu Matatiele N Moderate 2 4 6 Brandvlei Bethulie Rouxville Scottburgh L Leliefontein Philipstown Hondeklipbaai U Vosburg Britstown Sterkspruit Kokstad De Aar V Colesberg Aliwal North Harding Medium High High Kliprand Garies Lady Grey Mount Fletcher 3 6 9 Venterstad Rhodes Port Shepstone Mount Frere Mount Ayliff Carnarvon Burgersdorp Bizana Loeriesfontein Barkly East Hanover Ntabankulu Kotzesrus Jamestown Noupoort Maclear Flagstaff Bitterfontein 31° Ugie 31° Steynsburg Dordrecht Williston Victoria West Tsolo Richmond Molteno Elliot Lusikisiki Nieuwoudtville Loxton LEGEND CALVINIA Middelburg Indwe Sterkstroom Cala Libode A Lutzville Vredendal Hofmeyr Mthatha Lady Frere Engcobo Ngqeleni Port St. Johns Water Source T Vredendal Nieu - Bethesda QUEENSTOWN Mqanduli Middelpos Fraserburg Murraysburg L Klawer Tarkastad Groundwater Doringbaai Cofimvaba Coffee Bay A Nelspoort Cradock Tsomo Whittlesea Idutywa Graaff - Reinet N Combination (Ground and surface water) N Lambert's Bay Cathcart 32° 32° Clanwilliam BEAUFORT WEST Butterworth A Sutherland Surface water T Elandsbaai Aberdeen E Pearston Centane I Wadrif Stutterheim Komga C Pro vince C Merweville Bedford Citrusdal Leeu Gamka Somerset East Adelaide Kei Mouth Fort Beaufort O Bhisho Rietbron Cookhouse International boundary O Velddrif Klipplaat Jansenville Vredenburg Piketberg N Dams C Porterville Saldanha Laingsburg Prince Albert A Willowmore Grahamstown I 33° Special aquifer regions 33° E Matjiesfontein Steytlerville Hamburg Moorreesburg Tulbagh Kirkwood Paterson A Darling Touwsrivier D Ceres Ladismith De Rust DURBAN Major Towns/Cities De Doorns Calitzdorp Addo Port Alfred N Malmesbury Oudtshoorn Uniondale N Worcester Alexandria I Atlantis Baden Vanwyksdorp Patensie Despatch Kenton on Sea Paarl Joubertina Uitenhage Wellington Robertson Montagu Kareedouw Stellenbosch Barrydale Sedgefield Humansdorp PORT ELIZABETH Franschhoek George Knysna CAPE TOWN Swellendam Bellville Villiersdorp Riversdale Plettenberg Bay Jeffreys Bay Mossel Bay Somerset West Heidelberg Cape St Francis 34° Riviersonderend Albertina 34° Simon's Town Caledon Stilbaai Gouritsmond Hermanus Witsand Stanford Bredasdorp Coordinate System: Clarke 1880 Albers Projection: Albers Original Map Compilation: Andiswa Matoti, Julian Conrad and Arniston (Standard Parallel 1: 19 Standard Parallel 2: 27 Central Meridian) Susan Jones, CSIR, 22 March 1999. Agulhas Datum: Clarke 1880 Recompiled: June 2013 Directorate: Hydrological Services 16° 17° 18° 19° 20° 21° 22° 23° 24° 25° 26° 27° 28° 29° 30° 31° 32° 33° Sub-Directorate: Geohydrological Information.