MINUTES KLIP RIVER FORUM 03 May 2016 Heineken South Africa 10:00 – 13:00 No Item 1 Welcome L. Mabona The Chairperson welcomed everyone to the forum. 2 Introduction of Attendees All The chairperson requested attendees to introduce themselves. 3 Apologies Ephraim Matseba Barbara Kalembo Bismac Mashau Tebogo Nkadimeng Freddy Letsoko Thya Pather Anza Mabayi Martha Manaka Jackie Jay Irwin Juckes Jim Dickens 4 Minutes of the Previous Meeting Pg3; 8 .4. Elsburg River was changed to Elsburgspruit. Pg4; 9. Freddy mentioned that pik-it-up is responsible for domestic waste and City Property Company is not responsible for private waste dumped on their property. Pg6; 12.3. A Barker reported that they are still putting together proposal as it is not yet finalised. Pg7; 15.3. Ekrhuleni was changed to Ekurhuleni. 5 Matters Arising from the Previous Minutes. Were dealt with as part of the meeting (see the action list) DWS 6 Additions to the Agenda 6.1 Proposed development of a Klipriver 7 Items for Presentation 7.1 Micro systems in water by Aquatics. 8 Water Quality Status 8.1 DWS DWS started sampling this month and will resume with the presentation on the next meeting. No report. The water quality results are not yet back. 8.2 City of Johannesburg (CoJ) The water quality for the quarter is showing very high level of W. Ndlala Page | 1 contamination, bacteriological 87 % of monitoring points that are within the unacceptable range, 3% acceptable, 8% is ideal and 2% tolerable. The challenges are sewer related, sewer blockages, vandalism on infrastructure and grey water from informal settlement. Chemical quality is not bad and is showing improvement. 44% acceptable, 55% tolerable, and there is no monitoring points showing unacceptable. The city continues to implement sewer infrastructure upgrade, clearance of blockages when reported. They are also performing hydro jetting sewer reticulation but the main challenge is the sewer rats that are forever vandalizing the infrastructure which is impacting on the water quality. The city is also involved on the bylaw enforcement and compliance, investigation and pollution. City of Johannesburg has assigned a task team to attend all the monitoring points that are added to the ward board list; there are a high percentage of points that are showing unacceptable. City of Johannesburg has sent a request to Joburg Water (JW) to attend the forum meeting. JW will have more clarity as they deal with monitoring of water quality. A. Barker suggested that since Joburg Water has been called to attend the forum and failed the matter must be reported to the MMC or Mayoral committee. D. Goeff requested map for all the area monitored. M. Fontein answered that he will put them on reservoir. The task team has been established to deal with the pollution and the studies been done for a door to door meeting. 8.3 Jo’burg Water Joburg Water Absent without apology. Etienne Hugo to be called to delegate someone to attend the forum meetings. 8.4 Rand Water Rand Water M de Fontaine reported that the level of ammonia at K1 is of concern in terms of the upper Klip River catchment, particularly around the Soweto area. The sites K4, K5 and K6 are those sites that pass through Soweto and indicate that whilst ammonia levels are high, sodium and sulphate levels are not cause for concern. Ecoli counts at K18, K19, K21 and K25 are relatively low in the tens of thousands, and even though this still represents Unacceptable water quality, at least they are not in the hundreds or thousands or million counts. The high levels of Ecoli recorded at K4 and E17 are most likely indicative of overflowing manholes or broken sewer lines discharging into the river system. The discharge of AMD water from the central basis is having an impact on the upper Klip River catchment but this has not been fully investigated as discharges from the plant are not continuous. It is expected that the planned discharge of up 85Mg/day will be fully operational by mid-2016 following which further investigations will be undertaken. Page | 2 Mining activities in the lower reaches of the Rietspruit catchment are also contributing to the AMD impacts of the Klip River catchment. This is particularly noted at sample points R1, R4, R5 and R6. Overall, the water quality of the Klip River catchment is relatively good apart from the above noted issues. Ekurhuleni MM 8.5 At E1, E2 and E3 at Elsburgspruit there was non – compliance in E coli due to main sewer failure as a result of sewer collapses and blockages which is about to be replaced by 3 millions. The connection of the pipe towards Elsburgspruit, they have done Ekurhuleni MM diversion and the infrastructure is on-going. The outfall sewer from Littleton passing on Ramaphosa informal settlement is been upgraded to accommodate the high flow. Some of the structural damage will cost 8.6 million going to the Waterval WWTW. The construction will start early July this year. Sewer blockage and vandalism of the sewerline are the great challenges on the operational part. Heidelburg Road the first phase towards Dekema is almost complete. Phase two from Huntersfield the consultant is finalizing the contactor. Further down at Moleketi there was sewer blockage that caused pollution on the Nataspruit, but will be cleaned as time goes on. NAT 3 - Natalspriut down to Huntersfield there was challenges with the stormwater. 8.6 Erwat Erwat Dekema works there was a challenge with Ecoli due to new supply of disinfectant. The contractor is failing to reach the response time. Rondebult - Ecoli is still high due to new supplier. Vlakplaats–ammonia has improved from the previous quarters. Dekema WWTW – There was electricity outages and this also led to non-compliance in Ecoli. Waterval all the other parameters are complying. 8.7 Midvaal Absent without apology. The forum to get someone from the municipality to attend the meetings. 8.8 Sedibeng Brewery G. Hlongwane G. Hlongwane has been appointed as the waste Manager at Sedibeng Brewery. S. Ntshangase reported that they started sampling in February and the first month of the operation there was a problem with ammonia due to aeration, since then it has improved. All the parameters are complying and meeting the licence standards except for toxicity was not done yet as they need to outsource it. Sodium is still a problem at the plant. Page | 3 9 Solid Waste Management Absence with apology T Pather 10 Local Authorities Report Back (5-minutes) 10.1 Ekurhuleni Nothing to report 10.2 City of Johannesburg Nothing to report. 10.3 Midvaal Absent without apology 11 Organizations Report Back (5-minutes) J. Jay 11.1 AMD The assessment phase is complete and now there are on the policy development phase. So far 14 policy principles have been identified. These will be taken up into a draft policy which, together with the draft strategy and will be discussed at the end of the year. A newsletter on the project is due this month and will be sent to forums. 11.2 Central Rand Gold No representative 11.3 Ergo Nothing to report 11.4 Erwat Addressed under 8.6 11.5 GDARD F. Khosa F. Khosa reported that monitoring River Health Programme for Klip River was done on the 24 February 2016. The Klip-Zwart was not sampled due to high flow. This problem was reported on the previous meeting and is still occurring. Klip-Slang (Henley on Klip Bridge) was not sampled due to bad river conditions. The river bank has been eroded such that SAA5 is not possible. The team will consider the possibility of changing the two monitoring points. 11.6 Jo’burg Water Absent without apology. 11.7 Tongaat Hullet Starch S Mashiya Absent without apology. 11.8 Samancor Metalloys Absent without apology. 11.9 Sedibeng Brewery G. Hlongwane Addressed under 8.8 12 NGO’s / Other Report Back (5-minutes) 12.1 Gauteng Wetland Forum Page | 4 There is a meeting scheduled on 27 May 2016 at EWT 12.2 Henley Klip River Flood line Committee Nothing to report. 12.3 KlipSA A. Barker reported that there was no report from GDARD. A. Barker They want feedback on the Rietvlei Farm development in terms of Rietvlei Water Use License as the permission has not been granted. They are still looking at the status of the Blue and Green drop, the Department needs to expand on it. Plans from the WWTW which Joburg Water needs to hand out. What are plans to deal with WWTW in the catchment? A. Barker mentioned that work on the wetland is still continuing UJ to finalise the MOU on Klip river wetlands. In addition they have put together a proposal with CSIR to look at the value of the wetland as an asset. 12.4 Klipriviersburg Nature Reserve Association (KRNRA) A. Barker will send the information to F. Khosa. 13 Water Use Licence status The status is on the website. 14 CMA process L. Mabona The Vaal CMA has been approved and Gazetted for establishment, the rest is still under discussion. 15 Discussion of Additions to the Agenda 15.1 Klipriver Development There is a circulation of Scoping Report and the comment are due A. Barker on 29 April Issue regarding heritage from the Khoisan community. Public Participation has been done. 15 Date of the next meeting Sedibeng 02 August 2016 Brewery Page | 5 .