EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR WASTER WATER TREATMENT WORKS
DATE: 12 MAY 2010
EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR WASTER WATER TREATMENT WORKS
The Mossel Bay Municipality has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence for 2010 by the Water Institute of South Africa for its regional waste water treatment plant at Hartenbos. The award was made at the Institute’s Biennial Conference that took place in Durban towards the end of April 2010.
The Municipality competed for the Institute’s Wilson Award, which acknowledges the combined competence and initiative of the owner and works manager of a wastewater treatment works, with a total design capacity of up to 25 000 kilolitres per day average dry weather flow.
“Although we did not win the Wilson Award, the excellence award is nevertheless a feather in the cap of the Municipality and testament to the dedication of Mr Geoffrey Bredenkamp, Manager: Water Care of the Municipality and his team.
“Our objective is to achieve excellence in all our activities and this award clearly shows that our employees are dedicated to meeting this management goal. I am confident that we can achieve the Wilson Award in 2012 when it will be awarded again and intend to do just that,” said Dr Michele Gratz, Municipal Manager of Mossel Bay.
The WISA Certificate of Excellence follows hot on the heels of the Department of Water Affairs’ National Improvement Excellence Award for 2010 for medium municipalities which the Municipality also received at the end of last month. The Municipality was the national winner in this category.
The National Improvement Excellence Award was made in terms of the Department’s Blue Drop Certification programme, which was launched two years ago to implement drinking water quality systems throughout South Africa and to be the catalyst for sustainable improvement of drinking water quality management in its entirety.
The objectives of the WISA are the promotion of, and application of scientific and engineering knowledge and management skills in the planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, investigation, research and education in connection with the natural and controlled water cycle.
This includes the application of scientific, engineering and management skills to water supply and distribution, sewerage, sewage and industrial waste treatment, disposal and water pollution control.
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