Jones & Wagener was commissioned to compile the Integrated Water & Waste Management Plans for Anglo American’s Zibulo Colliery. The IWWMPs are used as a management tool for water and waste, and integrates the scientific and engineering disciplines to find solutions to water and waste management problems. IWWMPs are required by the Department of Water Affairs as a prerequisite for the issuing of water use licences. IWWMPs are dynamic management tools, which should be reviewed and updated on a regular basis.

Zibulo consists of an opencast and an underground mining operation. These two operations are spatially separate, but managed as one division. The Zibulo IWWMPs will be utilised not only by the Zibulo Environmental Coordinator, but also the ACES environmental, legal and project coordinators.

The development of the IWWMPs involved a site or status quo analysis, development of conceptual water and waste management measures, risk assessment to verify the success of these measures, refinement and adjustment of the measures, defining monitoring measures and combining the above into a useful management tool. In developing the IWWMP cognisance is taken of the Department of Water Affairs requirements, such as the GN704 regulations and Best Practice guideline documents. The end result of the IWWMP is a dynamic management plan that stipulates what is required in terms of engineering interventions, time frames for implementing these interventions, and monitoring systems that are used to measure success and effectives of the interventions.

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