SERVICE DELIVERY PERFORMANCE (PERFORMANCE REPORT – PART I)
3.9 WASTEWATER (STORMWATER DRAINAGE) INTRODUCTION TO STORMWATER DRAINAGE
COMMENT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF TRANSPORT OVERALL:
The four largest capital projects that were implemented by IPTS in the 2014/15 financial year are as follows:
Item
No. Project Description Budget Actual
Expenditure Variation 1 Enlargement of the Traffic Circle at
Gomery Avenue - Summerstrand 4,892,465 4,878,060 14,405
2
IPTS Cleary Park Contract Area Main Route - Along Gail
Road/Godetia Drive from Stanford Road To Cape Road
2.1 Road Signs and Markings 2,127,730 655,668 1,472,062 2.2 Crack Sealing & Surfacing 29,589,953 32,040,118 -2,450,165 2.3 Milling & Surfacing 24,672,023 38,284,915 -13,612,892
2.4 New Bus Stops 7,998,334 9,680,239 -1,681,905
TOTAL 69,280,505 85,539,001 -16,258,496
The target for year five is the construction of a proto type bus station in the Cleary Park route and this can be constructed within the approved budget provided. Variations to the approved project value cannot be determined at this stage.
3.9 WASTEWATER (STORMWATER DRAINAGE)
Stormwater master planning has been undertaken and is in progress in various areas throughout Nelson Mandela Bay, with a view to establishing, in particular, the bulk stormwater requirements for these areas. This is essential, as existing and proposed housing developments cause the existing stormwater systems to be overloaded, resulting in the flooding of properties.
The Municipality has furthermore conducted floodline studies for various catchment areas in Nelson Mandela Bay and has established a 1:100 year floodline, in terms of which development within those lines is prevented.
Challenges:
(a) The inadequate funding for roads and stormwater maintenance has led to an increase in the backlog (approximately R4.5 billion for maintenance and R2 billion for the tarring of roads). This increase annually, as new residential areas are established and developed.
(b) Insufficient subsidies from the Provincial Departments of Transport and Roads and Public Works.
(c) Risk of flooding and community health and safety hazards due to poor stormwater infrastructure (estimated stormwater infrastructure backlog is R480 million; bridge and culvert structures is R390 million; and Stormwater Master Plan implementation is R2.15 billion).
Service delivery priorities include:
• Installation of bulk stormwater to eliminate flooding
• Improved standard of living for people living in informal settlements.
Stormwater Infrastructure
Kilometers
Total Stormwater measures
New stormwater measures
Stormwater measures upgraded
Stormwater measures maintained
Year -2 3 1
Year -1 1 1
Year 0 1 1
T 3.9.2
Cost of Construction/Maintenance
R' 000
Stormwater Measures
New Upgraded Maintained
Year -2 63,950 7,500
Year -1 9,820 11,846
Year 0 42,957 12,132
T 3.9.3
KEY PERFORMANCE AREA AND KEY PERFORMANCE ELEMENT
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR (Online Service Targets)
Year -1 TARGET
2013/14
Year -1 ACTUAL
2013/14
Year 0 TARGET
2014/15
Year 0 ACTUAL
2014/15
Year 1 TARGET
2015/16 KPA: Basic Service
Delivery and Infrastructure
Development KPE: Stormwater
Km of stormwater drainage installed
1 km 1.1 km N / A N / A 1 km
Financial Performance Year 0: Stormwater Services
R'000 Details
Year -1 Year 0
Actual Original Budget Adjustment
Budget
Actual Variance to
Budget
Total Operational Revenue #DIV/0!
Expenditure:
Employees
8,003,199
7,314,640
9,503,230
9,241,976 21%
Repairs and Maintenance
31,695
3,424,830
3,834,830
2,744,672 -25%
Other
21,041 #DIV/0!
Total Operational Expenditure
8,055,935
10,739,470
13,338,060
11,986,648 10%
Net Operational Expenditure
8,055,935
10,739,470
13,338,060
11,986,648 10%
T 3.9.7 ROADS EMPLOYEES
Employees: Stormmwater Services Job Level
Year -1 Year 0
Employees Posts Employees Vacancies (fulltime equivalents)
Vacancies (as a % of total posts)
No. No. No. No. %
0 - 3 178 203 197 6 3%
4 - 6 89 147 44 103 70%
7 - 9 25 35 18 17 49%
10 - 12 20 39 22 17 44%
13 - 15 5 15 3 12 80%
16 - 18 1 3 2 1 33%
19 - 20 0 0 0 0 #DIV/0!
Total 318 442 286 156 35%
T 3.9.6
Capital Expenditure Year 0: Stormwater Services
R' 000
Capital Projects
Year 0 Budget Adjustment
Budget
Actual Expenditure
Variance from original
budget
Total Project Value
Total All
52,805
31,392
55,089 4%
Lorraine Stormwater Control 10,000
3,300
3,299 -203%
Stormwater Improvements
2,468
3,280
3,277 25%
New Brighton/Kwazakhele: Bulk
Stormwater
2,000
2,408
2,408 17%
Stormwater Drainage System:Ph2:Mondile
Str.:KwaNobuhle
1,587
1,904
1,903 17%
Newton Park Business Area: Bulk
stormwater Flood Control
50
-
- #DIV/0!
Zwide Bulk Stormwater 4,000
2,249
1,408 -184%
IPTS - Theescombe/Gqebera Bulk
Stormwater
20,000
8,454
- #DIV/0!
Blue Horizan Bay Bulk Stormwater
1,000
60
58 -1624%
Summerstrand Bulk Stormwater
5,000
842
842 -494%
Chatty: Stormwater Improvement
1,000
672
672 -49%
Wells Estate: Stormwater Improvements -
2,598
2,598 100%
Cannonville/Colchester: Stormwater
improvements
1,700
1,700
1,662 -2%
Greenbushes: Stormwater Improvements 500
425
424 -18%
Stormwater Improvements Ikamvelihle 1,000
1,000
999 0%
Walmer Gqebera
-
-
33,039 100%
Rehabilitation of Stormwater Ponds
2,500
2,500
2,500 0%
Total project value represents the estimated cost of the project on approval by council (including past and
future expenditure as appropriate. T 3.9.8
The following projects were implemented by the Municipality during the 2014/15 financial year:
• Stormwater Improvements Ikamvelihle
• New Brighton / Kwazakhele: Bulk Stormwater
• Zwide Bulk Stormwater
• Stormwater Improvements
• Walmer / Gqebera
Variances can be attributed to changes in the allocation from the Ward-based budget and budget amendments. Targets will be attained for stormwater, as set out in the IDP.
COMPONENT C: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION TO PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Like most of the cities in South Africa, Port Elizabeth is no difference since it is the product of the apartheid ideology that guided development for many years ago prior to 1994. Despite many recent initiatives to address the spatial patterns of segregated development, including fragmentation, separation and low-density sprawl, with consequent well-developed so-called “white suburbs” around the CBD and marginalized townships on the urban periphery, many of these patterns are still in place today.
Most areas within the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area lack a formal economic base and the great majority of people lives in informal slums and survive in the informal economy. Their struggle for survival has a dire impact on the urban environment. The wealthy tend to live in gated communities; the poor tend to be confined to marginalized homes built on unstable hillsides or on floodplains or located far from job opportunities, with minimal or non-existent bus services, compounded by traffic congestion, etc. Social inclusion with increasing job opportunities then becomes an overriding objective, as important as (and vital to) improving business climate to attract new businesses. Without skills and transport they are condemned to remain out of the mainstream of the society.
In terms of structural changes in Urban Form here in the City of Port Elizabeth, one of the most needed paradigm shifts is the need to halt urban sprawl and to increase urban density. This will have a dramatic impact in reducing ecological footprint
estimates. Hence, pro-active allocation of sites for “densified” occupation would be the best solution to avoid those disastrous urbanization patterns which would never be able to achieve adequate infrastructure, access to jobs, or environmental sustainability.
Urban growth (due to agglomeration economies and associated labor and population attraction) inevitably leads to the configuration of large urban structures which need coordination in terms of service delivery, public investment and accountability. The above mentioned challenges provide opportunities for physical arrangement of the localities around a major urban center, including the planning of infrastructure, especially transport and housing, and the forecast of how and where this region will expand.