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Mndwaka Dam- SAICE 2015 National Award for Water Engineering
Mndwaka Dam has been awarded the SAICE 2015 National Award for Water Engineering.
Not only was Mndwaka awarded the SAICE National Award for Water Engineering but also recently received the first prize for Community Based Project at the SAICE Eastern Cape Regional Project Awards 2015. 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.
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