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Mndwaka Dam – SAICE 2015 Regional Community Based Award Winner

Mndwaka Dam has been awarded first prize for Community Based Project at the Eastern Cape Regional Project SAICE 2015 Awards.

Situated close to Hole in the Wall, between Elliotdale and Coffee Bay in the Eastern Cape, Mndwaka Dam is being constructed as the storage component of the Mncwasa Water Supply Scheme, which will provide domestic water supply to 63 rural villages. RMC dam construction offers advantages in terms of lower cost on a small scale and in a remote location, but it is the high utilization of labour, with associated skills development, and the insensitivity  to floods during construction that makes this particular type of dam construction so attractive in rural southern Africa.

At Mndwaka, ARQ is providing design and construction supervision assistance services to Sontinga Consulting, while the construction is being undertaken by contractors ZMJV, a joint venture between Zana Manzi Services, WSSA and Amanz’ Abantu Services.