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SFD Promotion Initiative Ugie Elundini Local Municipality, Joe Gqabi District Municipality Eastern Cape, South Africa SFD Lite Final Report This SFD Lite Report was created through field-based research by Emanti Management and Centre for Science and Environment for a Water Research Commission project and as part of the SFD Promotion Initiative. Date of production: 3 October 2018 Last update: 22 October 2018 Ugie Produced by: Executive Summay South Africa EMANTI-CSE 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 Ugie, South Africa, 2018 Produced by: Unathi Jack, Emanti Philip de Souza, Emanti Shantanu Kumar Padhi, CSE Amrita Bhatnagar, CSE ©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 Ugie Produced by: Executive Summay South Africa EMANTI-CSE Executive Summary 1. The SFD Graphic 2. Diagram information 3. General City Information Desk or field based: Ugie is situated in the Elundini Local Municipality of Joe Gqabi District Municipality (JGDM) in the This is a field based SFD. Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Produced by: Ugie developed as an activity centre for the farmers Emanti Management (Pty) Ltd, Stellenbosch, South in the rural areas and also served as a shopping Africa. centre to the nearby rural communities. Currently, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Ugie has a population of 15,234 and a total number Delhi, India. of households of 5,078 (i.e. 797 people per square kilometre and 3 persons per household). Ugie town Status: and its surroundings has a mixture of both urban This is a final SFD. and rural areas, with the associated breakdown of households being 2,134 urban and 2,944 rural Date of production: households. 3 October 2018 2 Ugie Produced by: Executive Summay South Africa EMANTI-CSE Ugie normally receives about 693 mm of rain per 5. SFD development process year, with most rainfall occurring mainly during Data was collected through secondary sources summer. Temperatures for Ugie range from 16.6°C (reports, plans), and then Ugie was visited to in June to 25.8°C in January. conduct interviews with the relevant stakeholders, including site visits to infrastructure to witness the 4. Service outcomes on-the-ground situation. This information was used to fill in gaps and cross-check data collected. The following sanitation technologies were noted: The data was fed into the SFD Graphic Generator to • Toilet discharges directly to a centralised foul / calculate the excreta flow in terms of percentage of separate sewer – flush toilets are connected the population. directly to the wastewater treatment plant. 37% of the excreta in Ugie is managed safely as • Fully lined tank – sealed, no outlet or overflow there is some treatment at the Prentjiesberg – these are either buried concrete tanks, buried WWTW and Ugie Ponds, but excreta for 64% of Ugie plastic tanks or plastic tanks covered with is not managed safely, as it is not contained and can concrete slabs. pollute groundwater sources and the environment. • Containment (fully lined tanks, partially lined No open defecation is noted. tanks and pits, and unlined pits failed, NOTE: Excreta being safely managed or not is damaged, collapsed or flooded – with no outlet dependent on the containment of the system, and or overflow – these are the tanks made from not on whether the waste is safely handled or not. cement blocks with two compartments. Seepage emanating from these tanks through these blocks was noted. 6. List of data sources • Pit (all types) never emptied, but abandoned Below is the list of data sources used for the when full and covered with soil, no outlet or development of the SFD. overflow – these are pits that are not lined and • Published reports: Census 2011, Community never emptied. When full, the top structure is Survey 2016 removed and taken to a new pit. These pits are • Unpublished documents: IDP, WSDP covered with soil when abandoned. • Key informant interviews: JGDM, Elundini • Pit (all types) never emptied but abandoned when full but NOT adequately covered with soil, no outlet or overflow – these are pits that SFD Lite Report Ugie, South Africa, 2018 are not lined and never emptied. When full, the Produced by: top structure is removed and taken to a new Unathi Jack, Emanti pit. It is believed that these pits are not Philip de Souza, Emanti adequately covered with soil when abandoned. Shantanu Kumar Padhi, CSE Amrita Bhatnagar, CSE • Pit (all types) never emptied but abandoned ©Copyright when full and covered with soil, no outlet or The tools and methods for SFD production were developed overflow – some of these unlined pits are by the SFD Promotion Initiative and are available from: located where the groundwater table is high. www.sfd.susana.org. All SFD materials are freely available following the open-source concept for capacity development Some of these unlined pits are located in sandy and non-profit use, so long as proper acknowledgement of soil type and ground water monitoring results the source is made when used. Users should always give have indicated non-compliance. credit in citations to the original author, source and copyright holder. 1 Ugie SFD Lite Report Produced by: EMANTI-CSE South Africa Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 2 1. City context...................................................................................................................................... 2 2. Service outcomes ............................................................................................................................ 3 3. Stakeholder engagement: key interviews ..................................................................................... 12 4. Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................... 13 5. References ..................................................................................................................................... 13 6. Appendix ........................................................................................................................................ 14 List of tables Table 1: Sanitation technologies and contribution of excreta in terms of percentage of population ... 4 Table 2: Description of variables used in SFD ....................................................................................... 11 Table 3: Stakeholder identification ....................................................................................................... 15 Table 4: Tracking of stakeholder engagement ...................................................................................... 16 List of figures Figure 1: Location of Ugie within Elundini Municipality in Joe Gqabi District Municipality ................... 3 Figure 2: Ugie area representation ......................................................................................................... 8 Figure 3: Ugie area sanitation flow representation ................................................................................ 8 Figure 4: SFD Matrix for Ugie (2018) ..................................................................................................... 11 Figure 5: SFD matrix .............................................................................................................................. 14 Figure 6: Example of near full VIP ......................................................................................................... 17 Figure 7: Evidence of full and overflowing containment tanks ............................................................. 17 Figure 8: Evidence of poorly constructed and leaking containment tanks ........................................... 18 Figure 9: Tanker discharge point at Prentjiesberg WWTW ................................................................... 19 Figure 10: Prentjiesberg WWTW ........................................................................................................... 19 Figure 11: Treated effluent discharge from Prentjiesberg WWTW ...................................................... 20 Figure 12: Ugie Ponds showing accumulated sludge ............................................................................ 20 II Ugie SFD Lite Report Produced by: EMANTI-CSE South Africa Abbreviations DM District Municipality DWS Department of Water and Sanitation FS Faecal sludge GDS Green Drop