Cape Town Metro Mayor Patricia de Lille visited the Atlantis Aquifer on Thursday 2 November to check on the progress after many of the bore holes were refurbished to increase production.
The aquifer is one of several sites earmarked by the City as an alternative water source as part of their Water Resilience Plan. The water is serving homes and industry in Atlantis, Mamre and Pella.
These boreholes form part of the City’s unique Artificially Recharged Aquifer System, this system was producing around 4 million litres of water per day, which has now increased with an additional 5 million litres per day.
“The output from the bore hole system here at Witzands and the one in Silwerstroom – not far from here, where refurbishment work has also been done – is now feeding 9 million litres per day into the Atlantis supply system.”
The Mayor said while this increase has helped a great deal they are working on further increasing the supply from the Atlantis Aquifer over the next few months.
“This will allow Atlantis to become self-sufficient and not need the augmentation from the Voëlvlei pipeline, as been the case for some years now.
