Stewart further said that the Department of Water and Sanitation is again focusing on unblocking sewerage pipes in the Emfuleni area without having operational systems to treat the raw sewage before it enters the river.
“Both the Sebokeng and Rietspruit treatment plants pump their non-compliant effluent into the Rietspruit at the rate of some 150 million litres daily.” SAVE the VAAL said that is concerned about the environmental impact, the health risk as well as the wasteful expenditure of duplicating the same work in unblocking pipes as was done by ERWAT in 2020.
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