MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Mossel Bay Municipality has commenced with two exciting projects to improve infrastructure in the Midbrak area.

Sewage infrastructure:
In the first of the two projects, the first phase of the construction of the Midbrak sewer network has commenced.

The contractor is Lejamo Construction, and the Consulting Engineer is Element Consulting Engineers. The Mossel Bay Municipality’s Manager (Water and Sanitation) Eric Louw, is responsible for the project.

The work entails the establishment on site of facilities for the contractor and the provisioning of the necessary plant, personnel, and equipment. Residents may already have noticed some of the work in this regard. Next will follow the necessary temporary signboards, markings, and traffic control measures to ensure safe construction and road crossings by half-width and pipe-jackings construction methods. 

Please be on the look-out for the flagmen during these operations.

Residents will witness the excavations by hand to expose the existing services and the construction of the new trenches for the new pipelines. Then will follow the construction work on the sewer network, which entails pipelines of various diameters, from 110mm to 300 mm. Approximately 400 erf connections will have to be made.

 The provision of house connections is not included in this project.

Horizontal drilling is required underneath the railway line, the PetroSA waterline, and the provincial road, as well as the electrical and mechanical commissioning of the pump station, followed by the road layer works, with the paving and asphalt eventually reinstated.

The project is estimated to last approximately eleven months, and the projected completion date is early May 2021. By then, the plant and equipment should be removed from the area, and the residents should again have unhindered access to the roads as all the excess soil and materials will have been removed.

Area map of the construction of the Midbrak sewer network.

Water network lines
In the second infrastructure project, construction for the replacement of water network lines has commenced at the beginning of July, and it is estimated to conclude by the end of February 2021.

For this contract, the contractor is Ikapa Reticulation & Flow CC, and the Consulting Engineer is Kantey & Templer. The Mossel Bay Municipality’s Manager (Water and Sanitation) Eric Louw is also responsible for this project.

The contractor will also establish onsite facilities for the plant, personnel, and equipment. Likewise, the necessary temporary signboards, markings, and traffic control measures to ensure the safe construction and road crossings by half-width and pipe-jackings construction methods will follow. Residents are advised to be on the look-out for the flagmen during these operations.

Residents will note the excavations by hand to expose the existing services and the construction of the new trenches for the new pipelines. Then will follow the installation of new 75mm to 110mm diameter uPVC pressure pipelines and the connecting of water house connections. 

The project will conclude with the reinstating of the excavated road layer works and paving/concrete/asphalt, the removal of plant and equipment, and the final tidying up of the sites on completion.

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