The level of E-coli in the Umzimkulwana River is up to 100 000 times the accepted limit for discharge of wastewater into a water resource. DailyNewsSA
Durban - The level of E-coli in the Umzimkulwana River is up to 100 000 times the accepted limit for discharge of wastewater into a water resource. However, the Ugu municipality has denied that it released untreated wastewater from its wastewater treatment plant in Harding.
However, municipal spokesperson France Zama said they had noted “with disdain” the video circulating on media platforms. Zama sent the Daily News tests results for E coli levels from various testing points where there were wastewater treatment plants.According to regulations in the Government Gazette for faecal coliforms, the accepted general limit is 1000cfu per 100ml.
Strydom said his farm was 27km downstream, in Bhongwana, and he had already had four stillborn calves at his farm, although he could not link this to his cows drinking the river water, which he now believed was contaminated.
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