Makana Municipality was ordered to comply with environmental legislation in the Grahamstown High Court on Tuesday 8 September.
Makana Municipality was ordered to comply with environmental legislation in the Grahamstown High Court on Tuesday 8 September.
This followed the Makana Unity League's application to have the Municipality compelled to better manage the municipal rubbish dump on the town's outskirts.
On Tuesday 18 August, Judge Jeremy Pickering ordered Makana Municipality to pay the costs of the League's application concerning the rubbish dump.
This came after Mark Nettelton, of Netteltons Attorneys, representing the Municipality, asked the court for more time to put the case together. He said they had been given instruction at late notice.
The case was duly postponed.
In the application for Makana to comply with the Environmental Compliance Notice, actions specified include:
* Refurbish the perimeter fence within sixty days of the order.
* Control access to the site within ten days of the order.
* Develop a waste-screening mechanism.
* Develop a storm water management plan.
* Appoint an independent specialist to review all relevant and available environmental monitoring data.
* Appoint a specialist to monitor the air quality.
* Appoint an independent service provider and specialist to sample and analyse the ground and surface water.
"The Council of Makana Municipality is required to discuss the order within 30 days of its being granted and to implement a management plan immediately," a statement from the League's lawyers Wheeldon Rushmere & Cole says.
"The municipality is also required to report to the high court before the last day of each month following the granting of the order with regard to progress."
