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

2. 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%

3. 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%

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%

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.”

12. 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)

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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

17. 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.

18. Thank You