Mossel Bay Municipality
Sewerage

Mossel Bay was officially proclaimed a town in 1848 and in 1852
it became a Municipality

Sewerage

Manager

OVERVIEW

From the consumer sewage is conveyed through approximately 538 km gravity sewer pipelines to 93 sewer pump stations situated throughout the municipal area. From the pump stations the sewage is pumped through approximately 60 km of rising main pipelines to a total of seven wastewater treatment plants situated throughout the municipal area. The total design capacity for the seven wastewater treatment plants is 29.31 Megaliter per day. The current combined average daily inflow for the seven wastewater treatment plants is 16.37 Megaliter per day.

MOSSEL BAY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	DESIGN CAPACITY
Hartenbos Regional WWTW	17.8 Ml/day
Pinnacle Point WWTW	6.9 Ml/day
Grootbrak WWTW	4.0 Ml/day
Brandwag WWTW	0.2 Ml/day
Friemersheim WWTW	0.18 Ml/day
Herbertsdale WWTW	0.13 Ml/day
Ruiterbos WWTW	0.1 Ml/day