Conserving Water
Sustaining Life

OUR SERVICE AREA

MBOMBELA CITY (NELSPRUIT)

Raw water is abstracted from the Crocodile River through a raw water canal. The water purification works have a designed treatment capacity of 67 mega-litres per day (MLD). An average of 38 MLD is currently purified. There are 20 elevated reservoirs in town, with a total holding capacity of 55000 m3. All the reservoirs are controlled by a telemetry system. The town is divided into 12 distribution zones, and water is distributed through a 266km pipeline. There are 19 booster pump stations throughout the distribution system that are operated by the telemetry system.

Due to the topography, pressures in the network are controlled by pressure-control valves. There are currently 56 pressure control valves in Mbombela City (Nelspruit). There are 244km of waterborne sewer lines throughout Nelspruit with 22 sewage pumping stations. Sewage is treated at the Kingstonvale Sewer Treatment works situated 7km outside of Mbombela City (Nelspruit), adjacent to the Crocodile River in which the treated effluent is discharged.

MATSULU

The water purification works have a designed treatment capacity of 12 MLD. Currently, an average of 14 MLD is purified for distribution. There are a total of 9 elevated reservoirs in Matsul, u, with a total capacity of 17,025 m³. The town is divided in 4 zones and water is distributed through 119km pipeline network. There are 2 booster pumping stations throughout the distribution system. Pressure control valves are utilised to control pressure in the distribution network.

There are 60km of waterborne sewers throughout Matsulu with two sewage pumping stations. There are 144 communal septic tanks in the town with various sizes. Sewage is treated at the activated sludge Sewage Treatment Works adjacent to the Crocodile River and Kruger National Park.

Nsikazi/Kanyamazane

The water purification works that supply this area have a designed treatment capacity of 56 MLD. The waterworks is owned by the City of Mbombela Local Municipality as part of the regional system and also supplies surrounding areas outside Silulumanzi’s concession boundary. Silulumanzi receives bulk supply from this regional waterworks for further distribution to customers in KaNyamanzane townships and peri-urban areas within its concession area. Currently, an average of 27 MLD is allocated to Silulumanzi for distribution in the concession area. In addition to bulk supply received from the regional system, Silulumanzi manages disinfected boreholes that feed the rural areas of Luphisi and Mpakeni. There are 20 elevated reservoirs in town, with 160 storage tanks ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 litres in holding capacity. The total capacity of the reservoirs and holding tanks across the whole of Nsikazi operations is 47,370 m3.

Water is distributed through a 388km pipeline network. There are 21 booster pumping stations throughout the distribution system; 6 of these are managed by Silulumanzi. Pressure break tanks are used to control network pressure. There are 83km of waterborne sewers throughout Nsikazi with 6 sewage pumping stations. The sewer is treated at the Sewage Treatment Plant situated on the outskirts of KaNyamazane, adjacent to the Crocodile River.

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Mbombela City Head Office & Customer Care Office 18 Nel Street, Bateleur Building, Mbombela City, 1200

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+27 (13) 752 6839

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