DYSSELSDORP NEWS - The municipality announced this week that the 24-year-old outdated water pumps at Dysselsdorp have been replaced with state of the art vertical pumps.

The cost of the project was estimated at R2-million and was funded through a water services infrastructure grant from the Department of Water and Sanitation.

"The project was critical, as one of the main pumps that supply water to Dysselsdorp was on the brink of failure and with no backup pump available we needed act immediately," said the municipal manager, Allen Paulse.

Paulse also congratulated his technical department for swift delivery of the pumps. "The current delivery period for these kinds of pumps in South Africa is 12 to 16 weeks but we were able to obtain a pump set in Gauteng. This pump set became available due to a desalination contract that was cancelled earlier."

Paulse added that this was a massive project.

"With this pump set, we were able to replace three extremely dilapidated pumps with four energy efficient pumps which will serve us for the next 20 years. With these pumps we now have standby pumps for both the Dysselsdorp and Klein Karoo Rural Water supply scheme reservoirs," he added.

The project was completed last week.

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