Project Name: Ficksburg Water Supply Scheme
Technology: Pipeline
Client: Setsoto Local Municipality and DWS
Location: Ficksburg, Free State
Project Description: The project was funded by DWS under the RBIG programme to augment the water supply to Ficksburg. The work on phase 1 includes the construction of a river abstraction system to pump water from Caledon river into the balancing dam, a reinforced concrete sand trap with a volume of approximately 0.5 Ml, a new pump station including all the civil, building, electrical and mechanical works, approximately 1600m of 400mm and 350mm steel pipelines, a new pipeline into the Meulspruit Dam which supplies Ficksburg, and associated valves, chambers, electrical building and other structures.