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SFD Promotion Initiative Amathole District Municipality SFD Promotion Initiative Amathole District Municipality Eastern Cape, South Africa SFD Lite Final Report This SFD Lite Report was created through field-based research by Emanti Management for a Water Research Commission project and as part of the SFD Promotion Initiative. Date of production: February 2019 Last update: February 2019 Amathole District Municipality Produced by: Executive Summay South Africa EMANTI SFD Lite Report The SFD Promotion Initiative (SFD PI) has developed recommended methods and tools for preparing SFD Graphics and Reports. A full SFD Report consists of the SFD Graphic, the analysis of the service delivery context and enabling environment for service provision in the city for which you are preparing your SFD, and the complete record of data sources used. This analysis allows a systemic understanding of excreta management in the city, with evidence to support it. As a starting point (first step stone) to this (explained in detail in the SFD Manual), the SFD Lite is a simplified reporting template that summarises the key information about the excreta management situation in the city. SFD Lite Report Amathole District Municipality, South Africa, 2018 Produced by: Thabisa Manxodidi, Emanti Unathi Jack, Emanti ©Copyright The tools and methods for SFD production were developed by the SFD Promotion Initiative and are available from: www.sfd.susana.org. All SFD materials are freely available following the open-source concept for capacity development and non-profit use, so long as proper acknowledgement of the source is made when used. Users should always give credit in citations to the original author, source and copyright holder. 1 Amathole District Municipality Produced by: Executive Summay South Africa EMANTI Executive Summary 1. The SFD Graphic 2. Diagram information 3. General City Information Desk or field based: Location This is a field based SFD. Town background Produced by: Population Emanti Management (Pty) Ltd, Stellenbosch, South Urban/rural split Africa. Households Status: Growth rate This is a final SFD. Persons per household Date of production: Area 9 November 2018 Persons per km2 Rainfall Temperature 2 Amathole District Municipality Produced by: Executive Summay South Africa EMANTI 4. Service outcomes stakeholders, including site visits to infrastructure to witness the on-the-ground situation. This The following sanitation technologies were noted: information was used to fill in gaps and cross-check • Toilet discharges directly to a centralised foul/ data collected. separate sewer – flush toilets are connected The data was fed into the SFD Graphic Generator to directly to the wastewater treatment plant. calculate the excreta flow in terms of percentage of • Fully lined tank – sealed, no outlet or overflow the population. – these are either buried concrete tanks, buried 37% of the excreta is managed safely as there is plastic tanks or plastic tanks covered with some treatment at the Amathole District concrete slabs. Municipality, but excreta for 63% is not managed • Containment (fully lined tanks, partially lined safely, as it is not contained and can pollute tanks and pits and unlined pits failed, damaged, groundwater sources and the environment. collapsed or flooded – with no outlet or NOTE: Excreta being safely managed or not is overflow – these are the tanks made from dependent on the containment of the system, and cement blocks with two compartments. not on whether the waste is safely handled or not. Seepage emanating from these tanks through these blocks was noted. 6. List of data sources • Pit (all types) never emptied, but abandoned when full and covered with soil, no outlet or Below is the list of data sources used for the overflow – these are pits that are not lined and development of the SFD. never emptied. When full, the top structure is • Published reports: Census 2011, Community removed and taken to a new pit. These pits are Survey 2016 covered with soil when abandoned. • Unpublished documents: IDP, WSDP • Pit (all types) never emptied but abandoned • Key informant interviews: ADM when full but NOT adequately covered with soil, no outlet or overflow – these are pits that are not lined and never emptied. When full, the top structure is removed and taken to a new pit. It is believed that these pits are not adequately covered with soil when abandoned. SFD Lite Report Amathole District Municipality, South • Pit (all types) never emptied but abandoned Africa, 2018 when full and covered with soil, no outlet or Produced by: overflow – some of these unlined pits are Thbisa Manxodidi, Emanti located where the groundwater table is high. Unathi Jack, Emanti Some of these unlined pits are located in sandy soil type and ground water monitoring results ©Copyright The tools and methods for SFD production were developed have indicated non-compliance. by the SFD Promotion Initiative and are available from: www.sfd.susana.org. All SFD materials are freely available following the open-source concept for capacity development 5. SFD development process and non-profit use, so long as proper acknowledgement of the source is made when used. Users should always give Data was collected through secondary sources credit in citations to the original author, source and copyright (reports, plans), and then Kei Mouth Ponds was holder. visited to conduct interviews with the relevant 1 Amathole District Municipality SFD Lite Report Produced by: EMANTI South Africa Table of Contents 1. District context ................................................................................................................................ 2 2. Service outcomes ............................................................................................................................ 3 3. Stakeholder engagement: key interviews ....................................................................................... 8 4. Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................... 9 5. References ....................................................................................................................................... 9 6. Appendix ........................................................................................................................................ 10 List of tables Table 1: Sanitation technologies and contribution of excreta in terms of percentage of population ... 3 Table 2: Description of variables used in SFD ......................................................................................... 7 Table 3: Stakeholder identification ....................................................................................................... 11 Table 4: Tracking of stakeholder engagement ...................................................................................... 12 List of figures Figure 1: Location of Amathole District Municipality .............................................................................. 2 Figure 2: SFD Matrix for Amathole DM (2018) ........................................................................................ 8 Figure 3: SFD matrix .............................................................................................................................. 10 Figure 4: Honey sucker discharging……...............................................................................................…13 Figure 5: Pit toilet……………………………………………………………………………………...........................................13 Figure 6: Kei Mouth Oxidations ponds ................................................................................. 13 Figure 7: Public toilet connected to septic tank…………………………………………………................................13 Figure 8: Well-maintained ponds at Kei Mouth .................................................................................... 14 Figure 9: Well-maintained communal toilets ........................................................................................ 14 II Amathole District Municipality SFD Lite Report Produced by: EMANTI South Africa Abbreviations ADM Amathole District Municipality DM District Municipality DWS Department of Water and Sanitation FS Faecal sludge GDS Green Drop System IAM Infrastructure Asset Management ICT Information and Communications Technology IDP Integrated Development Plan IT Information Technology LG Local Government LM Local Municipality MuSSA Municipal Strategic Self-Assessment NRW Non-Revenue Water O&M Operations and Maintenance RDP Reconstruction and Development Programme SALGA South African Local Government Association SDBIP Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan SFD Shit Flow Diagram StatsSA Statistics South Africa VIP Ventilated Improved Pit Latrine W2RAP Wastewater Risk Abatement Plan WCDM Water Conservation and Demand Management WRC Water Research Commission WSA Water Services Authority WSDP Water Services Development Plan WSP Water Service Provider WTW Water Treatment Works WW Wastewater WWTW Wastewater Treatment Works 1 Amathole District Municipality SFD Lite Report Produced by: EMANTI South Africa 1. District context The Amathole District Municipality is a Category C municipality situated in the central part of the Eastern Cape. It stretches along the Sunshine Coast from the Fish River Mouth and along the Eastern Seaboard to just south of Hole in the Wall along the Wild Coast. It is bordered to the north by the Amathole Mountain Range. The municipality is comprised of six local municipalities: Mbhashe, Mnquma, Great
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