No chlorine at Brits sewage works.
No chlorine at Brits sewage works
Written by Kormorant | 3 November 2011
According to water tests conducted at the Brits
Sewer plant earlier this month, no chlorine dosing was done and the
e-coli count was too high to calculate, Madibeng councillor Eddie Barlow
said.
In a letter to the acting Madibeng municipal
manager and the director of technical services, Barlow said an
estimated 1.2 million to 1.6 million liters of untreated sewage have
been running into the Crocodile River.
“The samples were taken in the effluent canal
flowing to the Crocodile River. The results prove that no chlorine
dosing was done. The coli and e-coli from both were too numerous to
count,” he said.
“I was at the plant on Tuesday and still no
chlorine gas dosing is taking place. It is estimated that no gas
treatment took place for the past month.”
Barlow said it is clear that the Madibeng
municipality blatantly and intentionally disregards the Water Act which
makes them guilty of an offense.
According to the act no person may “unlawfully
and intentionally or negligently commit any act or omission which
pollutes or is likely to pollute a water resource;
151.(1)(j): unlawfully and intentionally or
negligently commit any act or omission which detrimentally affects or is
likely to affect a water resource.”
“We want to know why no chlorine dosing has been
done for the past estimated month and who is to blame,” Barlow said
yesterday.
This letter with all previous letters will be
handed to the Administrator when the person is appointed, not if, but
when. It is clear that there is no discipline and no management to talk
of in the Municipality of Madibeng.
Neither did the mayor’s or the acting municipal manager’s offices acknowledge any letters.
I predicted that the Municipality will pollute
the river as was done two years ago, and that it will
happen before December 2011. I rest my case.”
Kormorant has sent an enquiry about the situation at the Brits sewage works to the Madibeng municipality.
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