Supply Area :Richmond town, Ndaleni community and Smozomeni community
Appelsbosch
79.41%
Supply Area :Supply Appelsbosch hospital and appelsbosch community
Ntanzi
76.19%
Supply Area :Ntanzi community
Gomane Boreholes
75.99%
Supply Area :Gommane Rural village
Impendle Spring
75.91%
Supply Area :Impendle village
Lidgetton West
74.71%
Supply Area :Lidgetton west community
Nzinga
73.14%
Supply Area :Nzinga community
Mpofana
72.94%
Supply Area :Mpofana town/area, Bruntville community
Rosetta
70.18%
Supply Area :Rosetta community
Boreholes (Untreated)
69.90%
Supply Area :Impendle rural community, Howick rural community, Mpofana rural community, Ozwathini area, Mkhambathini rural community and Richmond community
Makeni
65.13%
Supply Area :Makeni community
Mtulwa
60.21%
Supply Area :Mtulwa community, Mt Elias community and Efaye community
The following supply System/s were accessed as an integrated system for 2011 :
Springs (Untreated)
92.42%
Supply Area :Nhlazuka community, and Smozomeni community
Umgeni Bulk Water Supply
92.42%
Supply Area :UW Midmar and DV Harris WW and associated bulk distribution reservoirs supplying the Howick area, Camperdown area and Mshwathi area.
Sampled and analysed by UW , Pietermaritzburg
Regulatory Comments 2011 :
The overall performance of the Umgungunlovu District Municipality reflects noteworthy improvements in the manner in which the municipality approached drinking water quality management from the previous assessment cycle. While significant work still remains to be done in the majority of the supply systems, Blue Drop status awarded to the WSA and Umgeni Water for the “Umgeni Supply-Zone”, which accounts for most of the population in the municipality, accounted largely for the improved municipal score. Residents of Howick, Camperdown and Mshwathi are assured of drinking water quality that meets excellence requirements. Microbiological failures detected in all the systems except the Mtulwa, Ntanzi, Richmond and obviously the Blue Drop Umgeni Supply-Zone implies that drinking water poses an infection risk to consumers. Umgungunlovu must optimise treatment to ensure microbiological safe water; disinfection needs to improve to ensure residual chlorine at point of use as last barrier against any post treatment contamination. The problems related to disinfection needs to be addressed as a priority, if required, the municipality should consider acquiring additional skilled Process Control staff - the number of systems reported with failures increased significantly from the number reported last year. DWA congratulates the WSA for a full SANS 241 analyses in more than 90% of the supply systems. In most cases, the analyses were also repeated more than once. Form a chemical perspective, the water was mostly evaluated of excellent quality. Aluminium failures in some of the systems, however, further support the need to improve process control especially if the aluminium had been added to the water during treatment. The WSA is also reminded that any water being disinfected before distribution to a community needs to be classified under Regulation 2834 (soon to be Regulation 17). DWA concludes its regulatory impression by the words of encouragement of the Lead Inspectors: “The overall impression gained was that the DM is making a concerted effort to acquire Blue Drop status and this has resulted in a general improvement in their performance compared to last year. If the municipality finalise the items that they reported during the site inspection will be ready for the confirmation assessment, the overall municipal improvement will even be much better.”
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