Heritage Cases

The Department of Water and Sanitation has mandated TCTA for the implementation of the MCWAP-2 Scheme. MCWAP-2 comprises of an abstraction weir and low lift pump station in the Crocodile River at Vlieepoort near Thabazimbi, de-silting facilities with a high lift pump station and an approximate 1,8 m diameter rising pipeline over 29-km, gravity pipeline over 90 km varying between 1,9m and 2,3m diameter pipe with brake pressure and balancing reservoirs and gravity pipeline of 1,3 m diameter over 38 km to a new point of supply for Medupi Power Station near Medupi. MCWAP-2 would deliver 75 million m3 per annum to Steenbokpan. One of the National Development Plan’s primary objectives is to unlock the Northern Mineral Belt with the Waterberg as the catalyst, through the Presidential Infrastructure Co-ordinating Committee and Strategic Infrastructure Project 1. The water demand for the anticipated energy developments driven by the Waterberg coal fields in Lephalale area in the Limpopo Province and the consequential secondary and tertiary developments exceed the water availability in the Mokolo River Catchment which is the current water source for the area. The following would be undertaken: • Construction of 100X100 m (1 Hectare) of 2x20MVA 132kV MCWAP new substation (Study Buffer zone of 2 Hectare) • Installation of 2x20MVA 132/11kV fully equipped transformer bays, 132kV busbar and 2x132kV line bays (one equipped initially with the other for future use) • Building a control room adequate to cater for all secondary plant equipment • Construction of a 12km of 132kV Kingbird Power line9 (Study Corridor for 1km of which will be 500m from the centre of the power line both site) • Building an Access Road of 6m width and 200m length.