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Cape Town water project progresses

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Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille, says exploratory drill work into the Table Mountain Group Aquifer is progressing well. She has visited the project in the Steenbras catchment area near Grabouw.

Test boreholes are being drilled to help map the way forward for this part of the water augmentation programme.

The initial yield from the project is expected to be ten million litres of water per day that will be pumped straight into the Steenbras Dam.

De Lille says various projects are underway while 12 more are in the final stages of planning to ensure supply to the water scarce city.

“If we put in more boreholes we’ll be able to add later on an extra 50 to 60 million litres of water per day so the aquifers is a good way of tapping into the source that we’ve never used in the city before but because we cannot rely anymore on rain water to fill our dams we have to start tapping into the water from the aquifers.”

 

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