Table Mountain aquifer drilling causes irreversible damage
Uproar has broken out among environmental experts following the City of Cape Town’s drilling into an aquifer located on a World Heritage site, despite the environmental threats created in the process.
A number of specialists, scientists and environmental groups such as Freshwater Consulting and Nick Helme have commented on the environmental threats posed by drilling into the aquifer of the World Heritage site at Kogelberg Nature Reserve which also forms part of the Unesco Man and Biosphere program.
Specialists feel the decision to drill in this area has been made while ignoring the National Environmental Management Act.
Cape Town’s water augmentation plans continue to receive resistance from environmental experts since a group of scientists wrote to the City earlier this year in February, expressing various concerns with regards to the drilling program.
The letter addressed the irreversible impacts that the immediate surface drilling, as well as long-term aquifer abstractions, could have on the ecosystem.
Source: capetownetc.com