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Flooding closes roads in Kouga

October 20, 2012

The following roads have been closures in the Kouga

Road news:

1. The Oyster Bay – Humansdorp road is closed.

2. The Oyster Bay – St Francis road is open to 4x4s only, but 4×4 drivers are advised that the road is VERY slippery.

3. Johan Muller Boulevard in Paradise Beach, Jeffreys Bay, is closed.

4. The Loerie road is still closed due to the flooding of the causeways between the Gamtoos Ferry hotel and Loerie. The alternative road is the R330 that one would use to travel from PE to Hankey and Patensie.

Please take care when driving over the weekend.

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Roads closed due to rain

August 8, 2012

The heavy rainfalls experienced over the past few days has caused more damage to the road infrastructure in all the towns in Kouga and more pot holes have appeared, particularly in St Francis Bay and Jeffreys Bay.

Aapies Draai was closed yesterday afternoon to traffic and it still closed this morning. Aston bay residents have been particularly hard hit with the latest rains as Dolphin Drive as well as Swan Road (two of the main access roads) have huge potholes and have become unsafe to drive on, especially at night.

Elsewhere in the Kouga, both roads to Oyster bay were closed yesterday due to the roads becoming dangerous for motorists to drive on.

The following roads and mountain passes in South Africa are closed to traffic due to severe weather:

1. Eastern Cape – R61 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Queenstown and Cofimvaba due to snow / ice

2. Eastern Cape – N9 Route, ROAD OPEN between Graaff-Reinet and Middelburg -Lootsberg Pass

3. Eastern Cape – R61 Route, ROAD OPEN between Graaff-Reinet and Cradock – Wapadsberg Pass

4. Western Cape – ROADS CLOSED between Ashton & Montague, Montague & Touwsrivier, Prince Albert & Oudtshoorn, and Montague & Oudtshoorn – Snowfall

5. Eastern Cape- ROAD CLOSED between Whittlesea and Seymour – Nico Malan Pass – Snowfall

6. Eastern Cape – ROAD CLOSED between Elliot and Barkly East – Barkly Pass – Snowfall

7. Kwazulu Natal – ROAD CLOSED AGAIN KZN / Free State N3 Route, Van Reenens Pass – Snowfall.

8. Free State – R712 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Qwa-Qwa and Clarens due to snow

9. Western Cape – R328 Swartberg Pass, ROAD CLOSED between Oudtshoorn and Prince Albert due to snow

10. Western Cape – R62 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Ashton and Montagu due to flooding

11. Free State – R74 Route, ROAD CLOSED – Oliviershoek Pass between Harrismith and Bergville due to snow

12. KZN – R617 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Swartberg and Underberg due to #snow

13. KZN / Eastern Cape – N2 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Kokstad and Mount Ayliff due to snow

14. Free State – R34 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Vrede and Memel due to snow (note: this is a Van Reenens Pass closure detour route)

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TITELAKTES VIR SEA VISTA

July 18, 2012

Councillor Ben Rheeder

Die inwoners van Sea Vista het vir meer as agt jaar gewag vir die titelaktes.

Raadslid Ben Rheeder het die titelaktes bekom en het so die inwoners gehelp om bewys van eienaarskap te bekom vir hulle huise.

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Flood damage in Kouga

July 16, 2012

There has been a lot of damage to roads in the Kouga over the weekend and people have been evacuated from their homes in low laying areas. Here is the latest update:

ROAD CLOSURES:

1. Oyster Bay to Humansdorp: CLOSED. Alternative route – Elandsjag/Tandjieskraal

2. Oyster Bay to St Francis Bay: Bakkies and 4x4s only

3. R102 between old Gamtoos bridge and Thornhill: Rocks and trees being cleared from the road. The road is open and traffic officers are on duty to direct traffic.

4. R102 west of Humansdorp: Also busy with rock-clearing on the road but the road is open to traffic.

5. R330 between Weston and Hankey: Closed.

SAND RIVER BRIDGE TO ST FRANCIS

The water level has subsided and the bridge is open to light vehicles only at this stage. Only one lane. No heavy vehicles will be allowed to cross until further notice.

DAM LEVELS AND WARNINGS

Kouga Dam 107%

Loerie Dam 104%

Churchill Dam 106,5%

Mpofu Dam 105,6%

The Kouga Dam has been opened. The overflow has reached Andrieskraal and is moving towards Hankey. People in low-lying areas close to the river are asked to be careful as there might be flooding.

The Churchill Dam and Mpofu Dam have also been opened. People along that route (Elandsjag towards Oyster Bay and St Francis where the water exists into the Kromme River) are also just warned to be careful as there might be flooding.

The police are on alert to assist. Phone them on 10111 or via the municipality’s emergency nr 042 291 0250.

The Churchill Dam

ELECTRICITY

Electricity has been restored to all parts of Humansdorp.

It is only sections of Tokyo Sexwale in Jeffreys Bay that is still without power but the municipality’s electricity team is busy replacing the transformer.

EVACUATIONS

Thornhill: About 70 people have been moved to the community hall

Stofwolk (Hankey): About 60 people moved to the hall

Greenfields (Loerie): About 30 people moved to the hall

Sea Vista (St Francis): 73 people moved to the hall

Many houses – formal and informal – are flooded across Kouga but the municipality’s technical teams are busy trying to divert the water and/or helping people pump water from their houses.

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Kontak ons Raadslede

May 2, 2012

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Kouga must play their part for Sea Vista school to be built

April 18, 2012

In a meeting today with the Departments Road & Public Works, Environmental Affairs and other interested parties regarding the building of the new Sea Vista Primary School it was quite clear that Kouga Municipality will have to address the storm-water problem for both possible sites.

Both sites, erf 3143 or erf 400 will need a proper storm-water drainage.

A new primary school is a must for Sea Vista and the community of Sea Vista is adamant that they prefer erf 3143 next to Tarragona Road as a site for the new school.

DA Councillor Ben Rheeder has requested that provision be made in the Kouga Municipal budget for 2012/2013 to address this problem. “The standing committees are the best starting point to address the storm-water problem regarding the new school” says Rheeder.

“The Department of Education have requested Kouga Municipality to make a written commitment that they will provide electricity, sewerage, water and storm-water for the school sites or the money for the building of the schools will be withdrawn”.

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Public meetings for the draft budget and Integrated Development Plan

April 10, 2012

Public meetings for residents input into the Kouga municipality’s draft budget for 2012/13 and draft IDP for 2012 – 2017 start tonight.

There will be two meeting tonight, both starting at 6 pm, at the Thornhill Hall (ward 7) and Sea Vista Hall (ward 12).

Attend the public meetings and find out how much the ANC led Council intends to spend on the sewage infrastructure in 2012.

Tomorrow, the 11 April, also at 6 pm, meetings will be held at the Loerie Hall (Ward 7) and the Jeffreys Bay Newton Hall ( Wards 3, 8 and 11, 14 and 15).

On Thursday, at 6 pm, meetings take place at the Kruisfontein Civic Centre (Wards 4 and 5) and Ramaphosa Hall, Patensie (Ward 10).

All residents are urged to attend the meetings as there are issues within the budget and IDP that need to be addressed.

 

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