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| Other Activities (Section 30) Chapter11.2.2 The Nyandeni Local Municipality.Nyandeni is 2 474 km 2 in extent, consists of 23 wards and a population of 314 273 people. The municipal populationis 79% rural, and 21% urban informal. The two main urban nodes of the Nyandeni LM are Libode and Ngqeleni.The LM has 43% water backlogs (Stats SA community survey, 2007).The Local Municipality water and wastewater infrastructure comprises:1. Four water treatment works: Libode – 3 000 cubic metres per day, Mhlanga – 1 000 cubic metres per day,Ngqeleni – 500 cubic metres per day, and Lutsheko – 1 000 cubic metres per day.2. Seven operational schemes served via boreholes.These plants and boreholes serve about 36 758 yard connections and the balance of the population withaccess being served through communal standpipes.3. There is one water borne sanitation treatment works in Ngqeleni. The sanitation services in the otherurban areas are through septic tanks.11.2.3 Scope of ServicesThe scope of services that Umgeni Water will provide is:1. Systems operations with particular reference to: operations of bulk raw water dams operations,maintenance of raw water transfer infrastructure, water and wastewater treatment works operation,major bulk distribution to command reservoirs, and reticulation network.2. Infrastructure maintenance.3. Metering.4. Water and wastewater quality monitoring.The contract for the implementation of a turnaround strategy for OR Tambo District Municipality Water ServicesUnit 1 has only just been secured, and as a result, the financial plan of this business plan does not reflect theimpact of this contract. However, the contract is formulated to be cash positive at all times and is on a full costrecovery basis with no expectation of a negative impact on Umgeni Water.11.3 Implementing Agent: DWA Working-for-WaterUmgeni Water has been appointed by DWA as its Implementing Agent for the control of terrestrial alien invasiveplants in selected catchments in the Mvoti to Mzimkhulu Water Management Area for 2011/2012 renewable forthe three-year period to 2014/2015. The programme will hire and train people from within the community ascontractors or to be employed as part of the contractor’s team. The teams use approved working for waterclearing methods and apply herbicide as per the working for water herbicide policy. The contractors employed bythe programme are provided with functional and developmental training to ensure that they can either becomecontractors on exit from the programme or join the formal job market in other capacities. This will contribute tothe social economy by creating jobs through clearing of alien vegetation in Umgeni Water raw water supplycatchments as shown in Table 11.1.Table 11.1: Working-for-Working Programme for 2011/2012Project Name Total Hectares Total Person Days Max People Employed per projectKZN Karkloof 1 081 6 033 60KZN Lions River 1 891 10 337 60KZN Midmar 990 5 250 36KZN Nagle 1 800 9 150 96KZN Mgeni Valley 1 905 10 170 84KZN Upper Mvoti 1 520 5 002 60Total 9 187 45 942 396Umgeni Water Five-Year Business Plan | 2011/2012 to 2015/2016 Page 63