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MOSSEL BAY TAKES ACTION TO SAVE CHOO TJOE
The community of Mossel Bay has swung into action to try and save the Outeniqua Choo Tjoe, which has been slated for closure later this month. . Read More...

MOSSEL BAY WELCOMES VISITORS OVER FESTIVE SEASON
The Mossel Bay Municipality announced that there will be sufficient water for the year-end holiday season, as well as until the new 15 Ml a day seawater desalination reaches full production. There is no longer a threat of having to close caravan parks or turn away any visitors due to insufficient water supplies for the town. Read More...

TEMPORARY COFFERDAM TO BE BUILT AT VOORBAAI DESALINATION PLANT SITE
A temporary cofferdam will be built in the sea at Voorbaai for the laying of the inward-bound seawater pipeline and outward bound brine pipeline for the R200-million seawater desalination plant being built at Mossel Bay, the Mossel Bay Municipality has announced. Read More...

MUNICIPALITY TARGETS ILLEGAL PARKING IN BAYS FOR DISABLED
The Mossel Bay Municipality has launched a special campaign against people parking illegally in parking bays reserved for the disabled. Twelve people have been charged and one vehicle has been towed away since last Friday. The campaign will continue for an indefinite period.. Read More...

DAM HAS LESS WATER THAN THOUGHT, WATER FOR AGRICULTURE RESTRICTED
A new calibration of the Wolwedans Dam, which the dam’s owner, the Department of Water Affairs, announced last week, showed its level was down to 16,62 per cent instead of 18,5 per cent as advised initially. The Municipality is dependent on the Department for information on the level of the dam.. Read More...

DIAS MUSEUM'S 500-YEAR-OLD SOLUTION TO WATER CRISIS
The Dias Museum Complex in Mossel Bay boasts one of only a few Braille Trails in South Africa - so when the drought that’s currently gripping the Southern Cape began to threaten the plants in the Museum’s Ethno-botanic Garden (of which the Trail forms an integral part), manager Mbulelo Mrubata decided to look to the past for a solution that would lead the important tourist icon into the future. . Read More...

MOSSEL BAY TO BID FOR INTERNATIONAL DART 18 CATAMARANS SAILING CHAMPIONSHIP
Mossel Bay will submit its bid for the 2014 Dart 18 Catamaran world championship when members of its sailing club attend this year’s event in Weymouth, in England, later this month.. Read More...

DAM NOW LESS THAN 19% FULL
The level of the Wolwedans Dam, Mossel Bay’s main source of potable water, this week dropped to less than 19 per cent, and at according to the Department of Water Affairs, stood at 18,5 per cent at the beginning of the week. The town is still on course to run out of water in January 2011 if it does not rain before then.. Read More...