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PPC Riebeeck West: Storm water Management Plan Page 1
1 INTRODUCTION
The Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited (PPC) Riebeeck Limestone Quarry and
associated cement manufacturing plant (Riebeeck) has been in operation since 1956. The
mine and plant are located on the Farm 1222 & Farm 1176 (previously known as Vlakkerug No.
503, Delectus 509 and Ongegund 508). The mine falls within the local Swartland Municipality
and the West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape.
The mining environmental area to which this document covers also includes a section of the
adjacent Farm Middelpos 969, of which future overburden dumping will take place on.
The current limestone and shale mining operations are authorised through mining license
ML 42 / 2002 and the current sand and clay mining operations are authorised through mining
license ML 43 / 2002 granted in terms of the now repealed Minerals Act (No. 50 of 1991).
The conversion of the existing Mining Licences to a Mining Right in terms of the transitional
arrangements of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, Act 28 of 2002
(MPRDA) has been submitted to the Department of Minerals and Resources (DMR). The
reference number for the conversion of both applications is WC 266 CMR.
Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited (PPC) Riebeeck has applied for an Integrated
Water Use Licence Application (IWULA) for the water use related to its mining operations
(limestone quarry) and cement plant.
The IWULA process includes collation of all the necessary information required by Department
of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) for the identified Section 21 water uses and motivation
for exemption from certain requirements of Government Notice 704 (GN704) (Government
Gazette 20118, 4 June 1999).
PPC Riebeeck is committed to implementing best practice in terms of Government Notice 704
and DWAF‟s recently developed Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) for Water Resource
Protection in the South African Mining Industry which adheres to DWAF‟s water management
hierarchy for all aspects of water and waste management:
minimise use and avoid spillage;
reuse and recycle wherever possible;
treat water for reuse or discharge;
discharge (as a last resort), in compliance with DWAF limits.
This management hierarchy is of particular importance in the Berg water management area,
which is a stressed water management area requiring more efficient and beneficial use of water
(DWAF, 2004).
This IWWMP takes into account the stresses in the water management area due to the demand
of the agricultural sector in terms of the quantity and quality of irrigation water and the needs of
other water use sectors as detailed in the Internal Strategic Perspective for the Berg water
management area (DWAF, 2004).