intsika yethu local municipality - Provincial Spatial Development plan

Water and Sanitation: IYLM has not yet assumed its position as a Water Service Authority, hence ithas appointed an external service provider for rural water scheme maintenance and provides water supplyservices to the towns of Cofimvaba and Tsomo.IYLM has ongoing concerns regarding the water and sanitation backlogs of CHDM which invariably affectit. Consequently within IYLM there are villages that do not have bulk services and schemes for basicsupply forcing the municipality to cart water from the centres to these villages and that remains to be acostly exercise. This challenge is exacerbated by challenges to provide adequate funding for bulk servicesfor infrastructure.Sanitation backlogs: High backlogs exist in the rural areas. Regarding the service level provision, 0, 9%of the households have access to full waterborne and sanitation, with only 53.2% from peri-urban andinformal settlements. Rural villages have access to dry on site sanitation services in the form of VIP.Approximately 0, 2% of the households depend on the bucket systems while 4.7% have no propersanitation. Where household access to sanitation by type is observed the following is evident: waterborne0.9%, VIP 53.2%, Bucket 0.2%, non services access 45.7%. According to the CHDM’s Water ServicesDevelopment Plan (2010), estimates are that a total amount of R32.1 million is needed to address thecurrent sanitation backlogs.Refusal Removal or disposal: The provision of the refuse removal is only provided in the urban areasof Cofimvaba and Tsomo and is collected on weekly basis. Only 2% of households have access to weeklyrefuse removal services, and only 1% receives regular or ad-hoc collection from the municipality. Another1% is reported to be using communal dumps while 36% is underserved. About 60% in mostly rural areasburn their waste or dispose it within their yards.Roads and Transport: IYLM’s road network is mainly made of gravel roads which need upgrading andmaintenance services. Tarred roads are found along the R61 linking major Towns of Queenstown andMthatha through Tsomo to the N2 in the East London direction. The municipality is also conscious of thenumber of citizens that rely on walking and has undertaken an expansion and upgrading of walkwaysthroughout public areas and along certain public paths, complete with the expansion of communitylighting, as provided for under the Projects and Programmes section of this document. IYLM currentlymakes use of the CHDM Integrated Transport Plan (ITP) in supporting transport service provisionthroughout the municipal area. The municipality currently lacks a Roads Master Plan but is giving dueconsideration to the development of such a plan for the new term. A Storm Water Management Plan iscurrently in draft, and still being revised before being submitted to Council in the new term.5.2.1.1 Summary of existing backlogs within IYLM circa 2010Table 21: Progress against backlogs within IYLMType of backlogBacklogsCensus2001Backlogseradicated upto2008/2009RemainingbacklogsBacklogseradicatedat the end of2008/2009Backlogs atthe start of2009/2010Road1320 kms 85 kms 1235 kms 40 kms 1195 kmsinfrastructure(incl. StormWater)Refuse Removal 23 Wards 2 Wards 21 Wards 0 Wards 21 WardsStreet Lighting 240 Villages 1 Village 239 Villages 1 Village 238 villagesCommunityfacilities56 buildings 12 buildings 44 buildings 0 buildings 44 buildings58