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Steel water pipeline project on schedule

1st August 2014

  

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Civil engineering and construction group Esor is on schedule to complete the installation of a 22.3 km DN600 cement mortar lined steel water pipeline from the Xonxa dam to Queenstown Water Treatment Works.
The project was awarded in November 2012 by the Chris Hani district council, as part of the greater Xonxa Dam Transfer Scheme and Bulk Water Supply project initiated by the Chris Hani district municipality in the Eastern Cape, to augment the Queenstown bulk water supply.

Esor pipeline division site agent Ian Foord says: “This is our first project for the Chris Hani district council and we are delighted to be partnering with such a progressive and forward-thinking organisation on an important project like this.”

Currently, Esor expects to conclude the project in September, he adds.

The project will address the current water supply shortfall within the municipality and open up an urgently needed supply of bulk potable water to indigent areas in and around Queenstown, says Foord.

Esor’s scope of work includes site clearance for the new pipeline, connections to the pump-station, delivery line intake and reservoir intake, as well as road and river crossings.

The route for the pipeline includes two above ground/surface sections. One is a 900-m-long concrete encased section traversing along the base of the hill opposite the Xonxa dam, with the other portion being only 100 m in length but going over the mountainous rise.

Foord notes that the 100 m piece of the pipeline is to be supported on concrete plinths. The difference in elevation from the pumpstation to the top of the mountain section is 400 m static.

Special environmental requirements on the project include demarcating and ensuring the protection of two old trees and preservation of a collection of bushman paintings on the rock faces near the mountain, as well as preservation of an ancient Bushman stone tool factory at the top of the mountain, he highlights.

Stringent safety procedures have ensured that the project recorded more than 253 530 lost-time injury-free hours by mid-March.

Supplementing the Esor core pipeline project team of 30 skilled personnel, including operators, coded welders, foremen and supervisors, are 165 local labourers that have been recruited and trained in various facets of pipeline construction, where applicable.

Esor’s pipeline division operates mainly in the gas and petrochemicals, water, stormwater and sewerage sectors.

Edited by Megan van Wyngaardt
Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

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