Leeuwkuil Wastewater Treatment Conveyances

GIBB Environmental (Pty) Ltd (GIBB) has been appointed as the independent Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP) by GIBB (Pty) Ltd on behalf of the Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM) to undertake the application process for Environmental Authorisation (EA), subject to a Basic Assessment (BA) process for the Leeuwkuil Wastewater Treatment Conveyances project.

The Applicant, ELM, has identified the need for the Sedibeng Regional Sanitation Scheme (SRSS) project. The SRSS is a project which aims to create bulk sanitation capacity in the Sedibeng region, deliver effective solutions to prevent pollution of water resources and unlock development projects that require sanitation services within the Emfuleni and Midvaal Municipal areas including the Sebokeng, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging and Meyerton sewage catchments. The Leeuwkuil Wastewater Treatment Conveyances project forms part of the overall SRSS.

The Leeuwkuil Wastewater Treatment Conveyances project comprises approximately 32 km of sewerage pipeline conveyances that will be upgraded, which in turn will improve sludge management at the Leeuwkuil Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW) and cater for future planned developments. This project will accommodate sewage flows from the south Sebokeng catchment, Vereeniging catchment and Vanderbijlpark catchment and cater for the future planned development. In addition, the project will allow the integration of the Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark catchments to create flexibility in the sewerage system for both catchments, and allow for transfer of sewage from Vanderbijlpark catchment to the regional Rietspruit WWTW.

In addition to the above, the project will also include the upgrading and refurbishing of five pumpstations (PS2B, PS3D, PS4B, PS5 and PS10). Most of the pump station within the study area fall within the Vereeniging catchment and have been designed to cater for the project sewage flow. The pumpstation are located here:

• PS2B: 26°40'27.36"S; 27°54'26.72"E
• PS3D: 26°39'7.30"S; 27°55'7.30"E
• PS4B: 26°40'47.94"S; 27°53'11.89"E
• PS5: 26°39'46.32"S; 27°57'27.52"E
• PS10: 26°40'50.26"S; 27°56'9.55"E

The application covers only the sections of pipeline that actually triggers listed activities (i.e. sections of pipeline that are in sensitive environments) in total approximately 3,5 km, and not the entire pipeline route of 32 km.