Green Drop Status and Waste Water Management in the Rustenburg LM Meg Cunningham

Green Drop KPA Score Allocation Process Control & Maintenance Wastewater monitoring Programme Submission of WQ Results WWQ Compliance Wastewater Quality Risk Management Local Regulation Wastewater Treatment Capacity WW Asset Management 10% 15% 15% 5% 5% KPA’s and percentage weighting for Green Drop 30% 5% 15%

2013 Score Loss - RLM 44% 3% 4% 10% 3% 3% 17% 4% Process Control & Maintenance Wastewater monitoring Programme Submission of WQ Results WWQ Compliance Wastewater Quality Risk Management Local Regulation Wastewater Treatment Capacity WW Asset Management 3% 4% 10% 3% 3% KPA’s and percentage weighting for Green Drop 17% 4%

% Compliance per category WWQ Compliance 17.4% System Category Microbiological Chemical Physical License Score Loss compliance Boitekong % Compliance per category 82% 70% 100% Y 16.8% Lethabong 95% 66% 96% 7.2% Monakato 92% 58% 75% 9.6% Rustenburg 91% 60% 97% RLM 90% 64%

Wastewater Monitoring Programme 9.91% Compliance Monitoring Monitoring programme was set up according to contract conditions – did not consider best practice or WUL Operational Monitoring Inadequate industrial effluent and process stream monitoring. Laboratory Credibility A number of labs were used and not all could provide evidence of credibility of analysis data Process Control/Monitoring Results Use of operational monitoring results to manage process not effective. WWQ Risk management requirements

Wastewater Asset Management 4.2% Sewer Inspection No information on the sewer system Asset Register Municipality was in the process of unbundling of assets – plant assets defined, but not collection system. O&M Budget and Expenditure Collection system information not available. WWQ Risk management requirements

Wastewater Quality Risk Management 4.01% Wastewater Risk Abatement Plan (W2RAP) Collection System Not included Wastewater Incident Management Protocol IMP in place, not adopted by or including Municipality Incident Register Collection system incidents not reported. Incident reporting generally poor. WWQ Risk management requirements

Process Control & Maintenance 3.2% Process Controller and Supervisor Registration Some gaps in compliance with regulations and staff not registered on the 2 small plants. Maintenance Team Inadequate evidence of competency of networks maintenance team Operational Logbook Inadequate implementation of logbook and incident recording at smaller plants. WWQ Risk management requirements

Wastewater Treatment Capacity 2.9% WWTW Capacity Planning/Collector Planning Some information provided by Trust but did not include adequate detail on all projects identified as part of the WSDP WWQ Risk management requirements

Submission of WWQ Results 2.5% All available analysis data was submitted but the RLM was penalised for not having adequate compliance data to comply with license/best practice requirements. WWQ Risk management requirements

From 2013 Green Drop Report “The Rustenburg Municipal team was found to be detached from the audit process and will have to increase their strategic, management and operational overview of matters related to the Wastewater business.”

Remedial Actions WWQ Compliance Boitekong in Process of upgrade Scheduled upgrade of Monakato (Oxidation Ponds) Review of license limits (to be achievable by technology on site) Unblocking of sewers (Lethabong, Boitekong) Management of industrial effluent (RTB)

Remedial Actions Wastewater Monitoring Programme Substantive review of Compliance Monitoring Programme to be compliant with WUL and/or Best Practice. Intensive operational monitoring including process streams and industrial effluent Interpretation of operational analysis data and application to the process

Remedial Actions Wastewater Asset Management Maintenance of large outfall sewers (RTB & Boit) Roving inspector checks for blockages Asset register completed O&M Budget and Expenditure in required format

Remedial Actions Wastewater Quality Risk Management Update of W2RAP with substantial input from RLM Review of IMP to include RLM. Development and maintenance of incident registers. Unblocking of sewers (Lethabong, Boitekong) Management of industrial effluent (RTB) Updated W2RAP and IMP not yet adopted by RLM

Remedial Actions Process Control and Maintenance Registration of all staff Consolidation of maintenance team qualifications Introduction of incident management and logbook system

RLM Management Control and ownership of the programme by the RLM Unit Manager Interest and enthusiasm from various directors (finally a permanent appointment) Ongoing support and commitment from service providers. Still lacking is active adoption by Municipal Management.

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