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Refurbishment of Kriel Power Station's 11KV AWR overhead lines

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Kriel Power Station is planning to install a 1.3km 11kV overhead line from Canteen to contractor yard fence. Digging of 17 holes for the installation of 13m wooden poles. The holes will be dug to 1.5 depth and a width of 0.8m. NB: This project is simply an internal maintenance work taking place within the power station footprint in an area disturbed by various power station activities.

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According to the heritage impact assessment undertaken by a heritage specialist, Mr Ilan Smeyatsky, on the 21st of February 2019, the area in which this line will be constructed is heavily disturbed due to the development of the power station and its associated underground infrastructure; he further indicated that no historic, Iron Age or Stone Age heritage sites were noted during his site visit undertaken on 21st February 2019. In addition to above, a recent desktop study done by Ms Elize Butler who is a Paleontologist, indicated that Kriel Power Station is located in an area completely underlain by the Vryheid Formation (Ecca Group, Karoo Supergroup). According to the SAHRIS PalaeoMap a Very High Palaeontological Sensitivity was allocated to this formation. However, Due to the site being highly modified/heavy only a moderate possibility of recovering fossil heritage during the construction phase exist (Butler, 2019).

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Thursday, August 22, 2019 - 12:42

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14241

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Butler, E. (2019), PALAEONTOLOGICAL DESKTOP ASSESSMENT OF THE PROPOSED KRIEL POWER STATION LIME PLANT UPGRADE, MPUMALANGA PROVINCE
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