VI. Budget & Treasury
3.2 KPA 2: BASIC SERVICE DELIVERY .1 INFRASTRUCTURE
3.2.1.3 WATER SERVICES I. Water
Mbhashe Municipality is not a Water Service Authority (WSA) nor is Water Service Provider (WSP), Amathole District Municipality (ADM) is responsible for both WSA &
WSP. ADM has WSP satellite units to serve Mbhashe Municipality in each unit.
The rural areas of the Municipality are serviced by a number of regional, local, stand alone and rudimentary schemes providing about 44% of the rural population with a RDP level of service. The balance of the population are reliant on own rainwater tanks or informal supplies (local rivers and streams).
The towns are generally serviced by local water supply schemes providing high levels of service to the older formally zoned even, RDP or sub-RDP levels of services to the formally zoned low income housing areas and sub-RDP or informal levels of services to the informal settlement area.
The towns are generally serviced by local water supply schemes providing high levels of service to the older formally zoned erven, RDP or sub-RDP levels of services to the formally zoned low income housing areas and sub-RDP or informal levels of services to the informal settlement area.
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Table below indicate existing Water Schemes
Scheme Name H\H's Population No of Villages
Served Water Source Willowvale WSS -Town
only 429 2.332 N/A
2 small dams / Nqadu RWSS
Elliotdale WSS 1.221 5.852 N/A Run of river
Dutywa / Doti WSS 1.303 6.275 N/A 3 dams; 2 boreholes
Cwebe RWSS 441 2.162 6 Run of river
Dwesa RWSS 2.102 10.207 19 Run of river
Mendu RWSS 910 4.414 6 Dam
Nqabara North RWSS 3.108 15.082 29 2 boreholes
Nqabara South RWSS 4.023 19.492 31 6 boreholes
Nqadu Regional RWSS 1.397 6.715 14 Off channel dam
Qwaninga RWSS 3.815 18.487 43 Run of river
Mbhashe North RWSS:
Phase 1 108 523 2 Run of river
Bongweni RWSS 871 4.219 9 3 boreholes
Colosa SAS 250 1.214 1 Borehole (windmill)
Dadamba WSS 351 1.699 42 Boreholes (electric)
Goodhope WS 846 4.103 3 Boreholes (electric)
Gxarha WSS 236 1.149 3 Boreholes (electric)
Mangati SAS 286 1.386 2 Boreholes (wind turbine)
Mazizini WSS 348 1.687 2 Borehole (diesel)
Mbele Portable
Communal Plant 51 249 1 Run of river
Mbewuleni LWSS 225 1.091 2 Borehole (diesel)
Ngcingwane SAS 124 599 1 Borehole
Nkanya SAS 547 2.652 4 Borehole (diesel)
Ntabolozuko SAS 285 1.382 2 Boreholes (electric)
Ntilini Communal
Portable Plant 72 347 1 Unknown
Ntlabane WSS 508 2.463 3 Boreholes (electric)
Nywarha WSS 335 1.619 3 Borehole
Sheshegu WSS 406 1.966 1 Borehole (electric)
Sinqumeni WSS 148 718 1 Borehole (diesel)
Tinane SAS 399 1.935 1 Borehole (electric)
Upper Ntlonyane WSS 375 1.821 2 Borehole
Vonqo WSS 274 1.323 3 Borehole
Town Supply
Regional Schemes
Local\Stand-alone Schemes
Table 20
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III. Sanitation
The older formal planned areas of the towns are generally serviced by means of waterborne sanitation, either with off-site or on-site treatment (i.e. sewerage networks to waste water treatment works or septic and conservancy tanks).
The new formally planned low income areas are generally serviced by means of VIP’s, whilst the informal areas are generally unserviced or have no formal services.
The rural areas, where formally serviced, are serviced by means of VIP’s
Dutywa:
I. The central portion of the town is serviced via a waterborne sewerage sanitation system, which drains to a mechanically aerated facultative pond type waste water treatment works situated to the south-east of the town. The township to the east of the town centre is currently serviced with conservancy tanks.
Willowvale:
I. Willowvale is serviced by means of conservancy tanks in the older portion of town and VIPs in the new RDP township to the north-west of the town.
II. Vacuum tankers service the area and dispose of their contents at the Idutywa WWTW.
Elliotdale:
I. The older portion of the town is serviced by means of conservancy tanks, whilst Extension 1 and the RDP Township situated to the west of the town, are serviced by means of VIP’s.
II. The prison has its own local waste water treatment works (ponds).
III. Vacuum tankers service the area and dispose of their contents at the Mqanduli and/or Dutywa WWTW
Through Technical Engineering Forum and Water Forum that are facilitated by ADM there is an integration and information to the planned and implemented projects.
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Challenges on water services
I. Old water services infrastructure in all three towns (Dutywa, Elliotdale, Willowvale).
II. Shortage of drinking water supply especially in Dutywa town.
III. Lack of Bulk infrastructure in all three towns (Dutywa, Elliotdale, Willowvale) IV. Lack of waste water treatment plant in Elliotdale and Willowvale
V. These water services challenges have negative effect on future developments in all towns.
VI. Slow implementation of rural sanitation program.
VII. Huge water backlogs in the rural areas.
Remedial Measures on water services I. Continuous interaction with ADM
II. Motivate ADM to prioritised bulk services projects especially for towns.
III. Liaise with relevant Sector Department to assist ADM and Mbhashe LM in committing funds for all water service needs.
3.2.2. COMMUNITY SERVICES
This section is composed of Community Facilities and Waste Management Waste Management
Mbhashe municipality is responsible for providing refuse removal services to its areas of jurisdiction. Waste Management Services is the main municipal service rendered by Mbhashe and as such should receive the requisite attention from the institution.
Since the establishment of Mbhashe LM in 2000, this service has generally been provided to urban areas and surrounding townships of Dutywa, Willowvale and Elliotdale only. Rural areas are generally using a range of temporary mechanisms such as own dump within the yard, food for waste programme and illegal dump sites.
According to census 2011 report, Mbhashe is providing the waste management services to only not more than 5% of its households. It also worth noting that the National Waste Management Strategy enjoins all the Municipalities to have achieved waste management coverage by 2016 as follows:-
I. 95% of urban households
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II. 75% of rural households
III. 80% of waste disposal sites have permits
IV. 80% of Municipalities running local waste awareness campaigns V. 80% of schools implementing waste awareness programmes
Using the above figures as a measure of success, Mbhashe LM would not have difficulties achieving the above targets by 2016, except for the provision of waste management services to the rural areas.
A number of initiatives by various sector departments and other sector partners have been put in place in our area, key among them being the following:-
I. ADM’s EPWP (alien vegetation eradication, waste management) II. DPW’s integrated EPWP incentive grant
III. Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA)’s Environmental Protection and Infrastructure Programmes (EPIP) programme
Working for the Coast programme
Mbhashe Street Cleaning and beautification
The figure below gives a distribution of households by level of service for refuse removal.
Figure 17
Municipality/
Private Company 2,199
4%
Communal Dump 1 160
2%
Own Dump 33 083
55%
Other 2 854
5%
None 20 828
34%