Notice No. 536 of 2000
Request to Register a Water Use
Mpumalanga
2 June 2000
In terms of regulation 3(b) of Regulation 1352 dated 12 November 1999 a person who uses water as contemplated in section 21
of the National Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of 1998) must, when called upon by the responsible authority to do so, register the
water use.
I, Johannes Malherbe van Aswegen in my capacity as Regional Director: Mpumalanga duly delegated by the Minister of Water
Affairs and Forestry hereby request that all persons who use water as set out below must register their water use.
1) Water Use
The following water uses in terms of section 21 of the National Water Act, 1998 must be registered--
a) taking water from a water resource
b) storing water
c) impeding or diverting the flow of water in a watercourse
d) engaging in a stream flow reduction activity
e) engaging in a controlled activity: irrigating with waste or water containing waste generated through any industrial
activity or by a waterwork
f) discharging waste or water containing waste into a water resource through a pipe, canal, sewer, sea outfall or
other conduit
g) disposing of waste in a manner which may detrimentally impact on a water resource
h) disposing in any manner of water which contains waste from, or which has been heated in, any industrial or
power generation process
i) altering the bed, banks, course or characteristics of a watercourse
j) removing, discharging or disposing of water found underground if it is necessary for the efficient continuation of
an activity or for safety of people
k) using water for recreational purposes.
2) The Extent of the Water Use to be Registered is
(Any volumes or abstraction rates are the aggregate of all volumes or rates on a separately registered property or parcel
of land)
a) The taking of more than 20 cubic metres from surface water or 10 cubic metre from groundwater an any given
day.
b) The taking of groundwater within 50 metres from the edge of a watercourse.
c) All dams on any separately registered property or parcel of land in the
i) Crocodile River catchment upstream of Kwena Dam
ii) Elands River catchment upstream of Waterval-Onder
iii) Komati River catchment upstream of Swaziland.
d) Storing of more than 10 000 cubic metres of water on any separately registered property or parcel of land in the
remaining catchments of the Nkomati Water Management Area.
e) Stream flow reduction activities (afforestation): All species of wattle, blue-gum, poplar, pine or any other exotic
tree species planted in commercial plantations (including woodlots).
3) Exclusions
The following water use(s) are excluded from registering in terms of this Notice--
a) Schedule 1 uses in terms of the National Water Act
b) Scheduled water use by members of an Irrigation Board or Water User Association in a distribution system
where they are supplied by the Board or Association (The Board or Association will be registered as a bulk
supplier. Other water uses must be registered separately).
c) The taking of water from a bulk supplier or a communal domestic water supply scheme, where the bulk use will
be registered as a whole.
4) Area of applicability
This Notice is applicable to all water uses set out in paragraph one above that takes place in the Nkomati Water
Management Area, which includes the catchments of the following rivers:
a) Crocodile River
b) Komati River
c) Sabie River and
d) Sand River.
5) Registration Forms
1) Only official registration forms may be used. Registration forms are obtainable on written request from:
The Regional Director: Mpumalanga
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Private Bag X 11259
Nelspruit, 1200
Facsimile: (013) 752-5056
or
obtainable during working hours of 07:30 - 16:00 from:
The Regional Director: Mpumalanga
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Prorom Building (Second Floor)
Corner of Brown and Paul Kruger Street
Nelspruit
2) A water user must submit the completed registration forms to:
The Regional Director: Mpumalanga
Registration: Water Use Management
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Private Bag X 11259
Nelspruit, 1200
6) Time period for registering
Complete registration forms must reach the address set out above on or before the mentioned dates:
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Mining
30 Sept. 2000
-
Industries
30 Sept. 2000
-
Local Authorities
31 Aug. 2000
-
Water Board, Irrigation Board and Water User
Associations
31 Nov. 2000
-
Recreational
30 Sept. 2000
-
Afforestation
31 Nov. 2000
-
Agriculture
31 Nov. 2000
-
Commercial users not receiving water from a
Local Authority or Water User Association
30 Sept. 2000
Workshops will be held at strategic venues in the Water Management Area to assist persons with the registration. Dates
and Venues will be made known through the local media.
7) Failure to register
Any person who fails to comply with this Notice is guilty of an offence.
J M van Aswegen
REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Date: 26 May 2000
Notice No. 576 of 2000
Request to Register a Water Use
Northern Province
9 June 2000
In terms of regulation 3(b) of Regulation 1352 dated 12 November 1999 a person who uses water as contemplated in section 21
of the National Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of 1998) must, when called upon by the responsible authority to do so, register the
water use.
I, Hendrik Bernadus Heymans Rossouw in my capacity as Regional Director: Northern Province, duly delegated by the Minister
of Water Affairs and Forestry hereby request that all persons who use water as set out below must register their water use.
1) Water Use
The following water uses in terms of section 21 of the National Water Act, 1998 must be registered--
a) taking water from a water resource
b) storing water
c) impeding or diverting the flow of water in a water course
d) engaging in a stream flow reduction activity (afforestation only at this stage)
e) engaging in a controlled activity: irrigating with waste or water containing waste generated through any industrial
activity or by a water works
f) discharging waste or water containing waste into a water resource through a pipe, canal, sewer, sea outfall or
other conduit
g) disposing of waste in a manner which may detrimentally impact on a water resource
h) disposing in any manner of water which contains waste from, or which has been heated in, any industrial or
power generation process
i) altering the bed, banks, course or characteristics of a watercourse
j) removing, discharging or disposing of water found underground if it is necessary for the efficient continuation of
an activity or for safety of people
k) using water for recreational purposes.
2) Exclusions
The following water uses are excluded from registering in terms of this Notice--
§ Schedule 1 uses in terms of the National Water Act
§ Scheduled water use by members of an Irrigation Board or Water User Association in a distribution system
where they are supplied by the Board or Association (Other water uses not supplied by the Board or
Association must be registered by the members)
§ the taking of water from a bulk supplier or a communal scheme, where the bulk use will be registered as a
whole.
3) Area of applicability
This Notice is applicable to all water uses set out in paragraph one above within the following Water Management Areas:
§ Limpopo
§ Levuvhu/Letaba
§ Olifants, only of properties situated within the Northern Province
§ Crocodile West and Marico, only of properties situated within the Northern Province.
4) Registration Forms
The Regional office of the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry in Pietersburg is going to co-ordinate the registration
of water uses on a drainage region basis. Before registration takes place in a drainage region, the Department will inform
water users by means of the media, posters, etc of the date of water use registration for that drainage region and also of
the address where officials of the department will assist water users with the registration process. Registration forms will
be available at the address mentioned or on written request from:
The Chief Director
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Private Bag X 9506
Pietersburg
0700
Telephone: (015) 290 1200
Facsimile: (015) 295 3249
or
The Area Manager
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Private Bag X 4012
Tzaneen
0850
Telephone: (015) 307 3627
Facsimile: (015) 307 3823
or
The Area Manager
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Private Bag X 8616
Groblersdal
0470
Telephone: (013) 262-2078
Facsimile: (013) 262-3541
5) Time period for registering
Water users must submit their completed registration forms to the address set out above on or before the 31 day of
March 2001.
6) Failure to register
Any person who fails to comply with this Notice is guilty of an offence.
H B H Rossouw
DIRECTOR (WRM)
Date: 26 May 2000
Notice No. 577 of 2000
Request to Register a Water Use
Kwa-Zulu Natal
9 June 2000
In terms of regulation 3(b) of Regulation 1352 dated 12 November 1999 a person who uses water as contemplated in section 21
of the National Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of 1998) must, when called upon by the responsible authority to do so, register the
water use.
I, Johann Georg Geoffrey Hansmann in my capacity as Regional Director: Water Resource Management: Kwa-Zulu Natal, duly
delegated by the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, hereby request that all persons who use water as set out below must
register their water use.
1) Water Use
The following water uses in terms of section 21 of the National Water Act, 1998 must be registered--
a) taking water from a water resource
b) storing water
c) impeding or diverting the flow of water in a water course
d) engaging in a stream flow reduction activity (afforestation only at this stage)
e) engaging in a controlled activity: irrigating with waste or water containing waste generated through any industrial
activity or by a water works
f) discharging waste or water containing waste into a water resource through a pipe, canal, sewer, sea outfall or
other conduit
g) disposing of waste in a manner which may detrimentally impact on a water resource
h) disposing in any manner of water which contains waste from, or which has been heated in, any industrial or
power generation process
i) altering the bed, banks, course or characteristics of a watercourse
j) removing, discharging or disposing of water found underground if it is necessary for the efficient continuation of
an activity or for safety of people.
2) Area of applicability
This Notice is applicable to all water uses set out in paragraph 1 above, within the Mhlathuze to Usutu Water
Management Area. See map herewith.
3) Extent of Water Use to be Registered within the Usuthu to Mhlathuze Water Management Area
3.1 Within the Mhlathuze and Mkuze catchments, as well as the catchment above the Klipfontein Dam
The extent of the water use to be registered is:-
§ The taking of more than 25 cubic metres from surface water or 10 cubic metres from groundwater on any
given day for any purpose.
§ Storing of more than 10 000 cubic metres of water on any separately registered property or parcel of land.
§ The taking of groundwater at a rate that exceeds 2,5 litres per second.
3.2 Areas other than the Mhlathuze, Mkuze and Klipfontein Dam catchments:
The extent of the water use to be registered is:-
§ As in paragraph 3.1 above, except that the taking of 25 cubic metres from surface water on any given day,
for any purpose, be replaced with 50 cubic metres per day.
4) Exclusions
The following individual water users need not register in terms of this Notice-
§ Schedule 1 uses in terms of the National Water Act (essentially domestic use)
§ the taking of water from a bulk supplier or a communal scheme, where the bulk use will be registered as a
whole. (The bulk supplier i.e. Mhlathuze Water or the Local Authority will register).
5) Registration Forms
Only official registration forms may be used. Registration forms are obtainable on written request from:-
The Regional Director
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Private Bag X 1018
DURBAN
4000
Forms are also obtainable during working hours between 07h30 and 16h00 until 30 June 2000 from:-
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
9th Floor, Williams Palmer Building
447 Smith Street
DURBAN
Telephone: (031) 336 2700
Facsimile: (031) 305 9927
6) Time period for registering
Water users must submit their completed registration forms marked for attention Mrs B Vermaak to the above postal
address, on, or before the dates below:
1. Mhlathuze catchment: 31 October 2000
2. Usutu catchment: 28 February 2001
3. Remainder: 30 November 2000
7) Failure to register
Any person who fails to comply with this Notice is guilty of an offence.
J G G Hansmann
REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Date: 4 May 2000
Notice No. 624 of 2000
Request to Register a Water Use
Eastern Cape
23 June 2000
In terms of regulation 3(b) of Regulation 1352 dated 12 November 1999 a person who uses water as contemplated in section 21
of the National Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of 1998) must, when called upon by the responsible authority to do so, register the
water use.
I, Trevor Balzer in my capacity as Chief Director: Eastern Cape Region duly delegated by the Minister of Water Affairs and
Forestry hereby request that all persons who use water as set out below must register their water use.
1) Water Use
The following water uses in terms of section 21 of the National Water Act, 1998 must be registered--
a) taking water from a water resource
b) storing water
c) impeding or diverting the flow of water in a watercourse
d) engaging in a stream flow reduction activity (afforestation only at this stage)
The extent of the water use to be registered is:
§ The taking of more than 50 cubic metres from surface water or 10 cubic metres from groundwater on any given
day for any purpose.
§ Storing of more than 5 000 cubic metres of water on any separately registered property or parcel of land.
2) Exclusions
The following water uses are excluded from registering in terms of this Notice--
§ Schedule 1 uses in terms of the National Water Act, which includes:
a) the taking of water for reasonable domestic use in a person's household, directly from any water resource
to which that person has lawful access;
b) the taking of water for use on land owned or occupied by that person, for-
i) reasonable domestic use;
ii) small gardening not for commercial purposes; and
iii) the watering of animals (excluding feedlots) which graze on that land within the grazing capacity of
that land, from any water resource which is situated on or forms a boundary of that land, if the use is
not excessive in relation to the capacity of the water resource and the needs of other users;
c) store and use run-off water from a roof.
§ Scheduled water use by members of an Irrigation Board or Water User Association in a distribution system
where they are supplied by the Board or Association.
§ The taking of water from a bulk supplier or a communal scheme.
3) Area of applicability
This Notice is applicable to all water use set out in paragraph one above that takes place in the catchment areas of the
following rivers:
§
4) Registration Forms
1) Only official registration forms may be used. Registration forms are obtainable on written request from:
Jacques van der Merwe or Marie Kapp
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Private Bag X 68
Cradock
5880
or
obtainable during working hours of 07:30 - 16:00 from:
50 Sprigg Street, Cradock
Telephone: (048) 881-3005
Facsimile: (048) 881-3545
2) A water user must submit the completed registration forms to Marie Kapp at the above address.
5) Time period for registering
Water users must submit their completed registration forms to the address set out above on or before the 31st day of
July 2000.
6) Failure to register
Any person who fails to comply with this Notice is guilty of an offence.
T Balzer
CHIEF DIRECTOR: EASTERN CAPE REGION
Date: 30 May 2000
Notice No. 515 of 2000
Request to Register a Water Use
Western Cape
26 May 2000
In terms of regulation 3(b) of Regulation 1352 dated 12 November 1999 a person who uses water as contemplated in section 21
of the National Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of 1998) must, when called upon by the responsible authority to do so, register the
water use.
I, Mahomed Aroon Rashid Khan in my capacity as Regional Director: Western Cape, duly delegated by the Minister of Water
Affairs and Forestry hereby request that all persons who use water as set out below must register their water use.
1) Water Use
The following water uses in terms of section 21 of the National Water Act, 1998 must be registered--
(a) taking water from a water resource.
(b) storing water.
(c) impeding or diverting the flow of water in a watercourse.
(d) engaging in a stream flow reduction activity (afforestation only at this stage).
(e) engaging in a controlled activity: irrigating with waste or water containing waste generated through any industrial
activity or by a water works.
(f) discharging waste or water containing waste into a water resource through a pipe, canal, sewer, sea outfall or
other conduit.
(g) disposing of waste in a manner which may detrimentally impact on a water resource.
(h) disposing in any manner of water which contains waste from, or which has been heated in, any industrial or
power generation process.
(i) altering the bed, banks, course or characteristics of a watercourse.
(j) removing, discharging or disposing of water found underground if it is necessary for the efficient continuation of an
activity or for the safety of people.
(k) using water for recreational purposes.
2) Extent
The extent of the water use to be registered is:
§ The taking of more than 50 cubic metres from surface water or 10 cubic metres from groundwater on any given
day for any given purpose.
§ Storing of more than 10 000 cubic metres of water on any separately registered property or parcel of land.
§ Irrigation with wastewater of more than 10 cubic metres on any given day.
§ Storing of more than 1 000 cubic metres of wastewater for disposal.
§ Storing of more than 500 cubic metres of wastewater for re-use.
§ Disposing of more than 50 cubic metres of domestic wastewater or biodegradable industrial wastewater on any
given day.
3) Exclusions
The following water uses are excluded from registering in terms of this Notice--
§ Schedule 1 uses in terms of the National Water Act.
§ Scheduled water use by members of an Irrigation Board or Water User Association in a distribution system
where they are supplied by the Board or Association (the Irrigation Board or Water User Association will be
registered as a bulk supplier, but other water use must be separately registered).
§ The taking of water from a bulk supplier or a communal domestic water supply scheme, where the bulk use will
be registered as a whole. (The bulk supplier will register).
4) Area of applicability
This Notice is applicable to all water use set out in paragraph one above within the Olifants/Doorn River, Breede River,