Supply Area :Mankweng, Dikgale, Mamabolo areas , Polokwane
Moletjie Area
73.79%
Supply Area :Moletjie east and Moletjie west areas , POLOKWANE , Pololkwane
Regulatory Comments 2011 :
Polokwane Local Municipality was represented at the Blue Drop assessments by a dedicated team comprising representatives from both the Water Services Authority and Water Services Provider (Lepelle Northern Water). The team`s overall understanding of drinking water quality management and subsequent control of the various supply systems is good. The Department was however not convinced that the risk management systems comply with the various regulatory requirements of excellence. Polokwane Local Municipality and Lepelle Northern Water are encouraged to further implement risk management strategies in line with the requirements of the World Health Organisation and also to study and implement the monitoring criteria as stated in the latest South African National Standard for Drinking Water (SANS 241: 2011). The shortcomings in the risk-assessment process, changes that still needs to be made to monitoring, as well as the fact that process optimisation audits still needs to be completed for all the treatment plants managed by Polokwane Local Municipality, prevented the Department from again awarding Blue Drop status to both the Polokwane City and Mankweng supply systems. The Water Services Authority is reminded that evidence must be available on the Blue Drop System to confirm that a full SANS 241 analyses had been done at least annually in each of the supply systems. Intensive monitoring for only nitrate / nitrite, sulphate and to a lesser extend fluoride, should be shown adequate and representative of all potential risks to the water supplies. Information is furthermore required to confirm asset management against the requirements of the Regulator (the municipality should improve on their asset register, information related to financial expenditure should be more readily available, while flow records should be available at each of the treatment plants.) Lepelle Northern Water Board needs to immediately improve treatment at both the Olifantspoort and Ebenezer water treatment works. Failure to do so might compromise the ability of any of the municipalities receiving water from the Water Board to attain Blue Drop Status in future. The microbiological quality of final water from the Olifantspoort plant was below the requirements of SANS 241, the water poses a risk to human health. Similarly, too many cadmium and mercury failures were reported in the final water from the Ebenezer treatment plant.
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