Water Solutions in Bloemfontein

Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality applies water restrictions in most dry seasons, generally limiting garden watering to early morning and evening hours and prohibiting the use of potable water for washing vehicles and hard surfaces. Bulk users are given consumption targets and face punitive tariff steps above them.

Farms drawing from boreholes or the Modder and Riet river systems must hold a valid water use authorisation under the National Water Act, with abstraction metered and reported. We size systems to the volume you are lawfully entitled to and install the metering that keeps that record straight.

Agriculture sets the tone around Bloemfontein — maize, sunflower and extensive livestock operations that need stock water and irrigation whether or not the grid is up, which is why solar-driven pumping has become the default here. Inside the city, the healthcare sector centred on the Universitas and Pelonomi campuses, the university and boarding schools, and provincial government buildings all need guaranteed supply and storage that carries them through a municipal outage of several days.

The Bloemfontein area sits on Beaufort Group mudstones and sandstones of the Karoo Supergroup, cut by dolerite dykes and sills. Those dolerite contact zones are where the water is — the fractured margin between the intrusion and the baked host rock forms the productive strike, so accurate siting matters more here than almost anywhere else we drill.

Depths of 80 m to 160 m are normal, and blow yields are modest by national standards: 500 to 2 500 litres per hour is a realistic expectation. We recommend a properly conducted pump test before committing to a pump size, because over-pumping a Karoo fracture system will dewater it within a season.

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