Solution found for waste water treatment

LEPHALALE - The Waterberg Coal Project Joint Venture partners, through Sekoko Coal, have entered into an agreement with the Lephalale municipality to take over the management and operation of the Paarl Waste Water Treatment Facility.
In its September 2014 Quarterly Activities Report the Company advised that the WCP joint venture partners had engaged with the municipality in respect of taking over the management and operation responsibility for the facility to ensure the long term availability of treated water for utilisation in the proposed project development and operations.
The agreement entitles, but does not oblige, Sekoko, on behalf of the WCP, to access treated water for 30 years with an option to renew the agreement.
The facility has a treatment capacity of 10-million litres per day, or 3.64-million cubic metres per year and will provide the WCP with sufficient water not only for its proposed export project development, but also Stage 1 of its proposed IPP development which is currently under technical and economic assessment.
Securing this water agreement is a very significant and necessary step towards the development of the
WCP which the joint venture partners are targeting a project start up for the Export Project towards the end of quarter four of 2015.