The City of Cape Town's Role in Creating a Better Life for All - MILE

ASSET MANAGEMENTAsset Management Philosophy:Manage the considerable infrastructure assets through appropriatereplacement and maintenance programmes to ensure thesustainability of the bulk supply system.Maintenance is largely re-active with cyclic and pro-activemaintenance conducted on selected strategically important elementsof the infrastructure.A special form of asset management – very importantStabilization of the treated wateroooooRaw water highly corrosive and aggressive towards metals andcementicious materialsStabilize to just over a neutral point on the index – high pHFine film deposit on the pipes and fittings - protectionProvides protection to the Billions of Rands worth of infrastructureMaintains a sustained quality of treated water through the storage andconveyance system.o Stabilization level compromised by national shortage of CO 2oSANS 241 upper limit on pH