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ESTATE NEWS

ISSUE 2 : The Proposed Silver Lakes
Outfall Sewer
At the crux of this proposal:
The City of Tshwane wants to divert
ALL sewerage of the surrounding areas
through Silver Lakes Golf and Wildlife
Estate instead of using and upgrading the
current systems at the pump stations.

The issues at hand are:
The City of Tshwane is trying to get rid of
anything that requires maintenance, such
as pump stations; the current sewerage
system cannot handle ANY extra sewerage.
The increased development in the east for the outfall sewer through the Estate, CONTROL!) dump their storm water into
of Pretoria and therefore around Silver what prevents them from: the sewerage system.
Lakes as well as the low maintenance • Not only laying the original line (which
attitude of the City of Tshwane is now in the case of Dainfern Estate took three The perceived obvious reasons of the
causing concern to us as an Estate, years instead of eight months!) but also Proposal of a Gravitational Outfall Sewer
which previously had, and still has, a self- deciding to add more sewerage from Line are, according to the City of Tshwane,
contained sewer system, still developed in new developments surrounding Silver the following:
the rural landscape of the then Peri-Urban Lakes (map below) and digging it up • Less costly
council of nearly 28 years ago. again? Imagine the sewerage spillages • Less maintenance
and seepage (first part of the article) we • Therefore less costs over the lifespan
The map on the top right emphasises the will have then! of the estate (50 years as stated in the
enormity of our concerns: • If all the houses (over which we have NO reports commissioned by Silver Lakes)
Once the City of Tshwane has the servitude

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