Save the Olifants Intervention Strategy

5 May 2011

Water Resource Quality Status Maps Status summary

Tolerable

Unacceptable

Acceptable

Ideal

WQ status summary

Olifants EC percentage compliance

14%

7%

36%

43%Ideal

Acceptable

Tolarable

Unacceptable

Tolerable

Unacceptable

Acceptable

Ideal

Olifants SO4 percentage compliance

50%

0%7%

43%Ideal

Acceptable

Tolarable

Unacceptable

Tolerable

Unacceptable

Acceptable

Ideal

Olifants Cl percentage compliance

51%

21%

14%

14%

Ideal

Acceptable

Tolarable

Unacceptable

Tolerable

Unacceptable

Acceptable

Ideal

Olifants PO4 percentage compliance

0%

0%

29%

71%

Ideal

Acceptable

Tolarable

Unacceptable

Tolerable

Unacceptable

Acceptable

Ideal

Olifants NH3-N percentage compliance

36%

64%

0%

0%

Ideal

Acceptable

Tolarable

Unacceptable

Tolerable

Unacceptable

Acceptable

Ideal

Strategic Technical Task Team for

Water Quality Management (STTTWQM)

Save the Olifants task teamCoordinating Committee

Save the Olifants Task TeamProject Committee

Strategic Technical Task Team for

Water Quality Management (STTTWQM)

Coordinating Committee: Save the Olifants task team

Project Committee: Save the Olifants Task Team

Intervention/ Project Head Office Directorate/ Sub-Directorate

Name of responsible Project manager

Regional Office operation& implementation section

Resource water quality planning:•RWQOs•Long term planning•Assessment

WRPSWQP

Beason Mwaka

Institutional Establishment• Johan van Aswegen

Water Quality Management •Stanford Macevele

Water Sector Support (Water Services)•Vespa Mabitsi

Water Sector Regulation and Use•Mamokgala Musekene

Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement• Busi Mahlangu

Pieter ViljoenLebo Mosoa

Resource quality services:•Monitoring •Ecological Assessment

RQS Nadene Slabbert

Local Government•Drinking water•Waste water•Diffuse pollution: Landfill sites

RP& W Willy Mosefowa &Wilna Moolman

WSR Leonardo Manus

Industry•Waste water•Diffuse pollution

RP& W Lebogang Matlala

Mines•Waste water•Diffuse pollution

RP& W Molefe Morokane

Agriculture:Diffuse pollution

RP& W Abashoni NefaleLebeko Morifi

Compliance monitoring and enforcement

CME Mishelle Govender

CME Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement

RP&W Resource Protection and Waste

WQP Water Quality Planning

WRPS Water Resource Planning Systems

WSR Water Service Regulation

Strategic Technical Task Team for

Water Quality Management (STTTWQM)

Save the Olifants task team

Coordinating Committee

Save the Olifants Task TeamProject Committee

Intervention/ Project Project Manager Participants

Resource water quality planning WRPS: WQP WRPS; WQP

RO

RDM,RIMS, RQS, RP&W

Resource quality services RQS RQS

RO

CSIR

Local Government RP&W RP&W

RO

LG

Industry RP&W RP&W

RO

Industries

Agriculture RP&W RP&W

RO

DAF&F

Mines RP&W RP&W

RO

Council of Geosciences

DMR

Compliance and monitoring CME RO

Save the Olifants Task Team:

Water Quality Coordinating Committee: Report

Report structure Water Resource Quality Status Drinking Water Quality Status Licenses Point Source Compliance Diffuse Source Management Pollution Incidents / Complaints Water Quality Related Projects

Water Quality Report

Water Resource Quality Status Drinking Water Quality Status Licenses Point Source Compliance Diffuse Source Management Pollution Incidents / Complaints Water Quality Related Projects

Water Quality Related Projects

Current projects:

CSIR study: Risk Assessment of Pollution in Surface Waters of the Upper Olifants River System:Implications for Aquatic Ecosystem Health and the Health of human Users of Water

NWRP:Development of a Reconciliation Strategy for the Olifants River Supply SystemClassification

RP&W :Determination of charge rates for the WDCS.

Review of Regulation GN 704

RQS:Assessment of Agricultural pesticides in the Groblersdal area.

Proposed projects:

WRPS Development of Water Quality Management Plan for the Olifants River System (including the Letaba River).

Resource Quality Objectives

Classification System implementation

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