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VIEW FROM THE TOP: Mamlambo Construction is the contractor responsible for building the 25m-high tower on top of which will be cast a 2.5Ml reservoir to gravity feed Thornhill and Nemato residents with potable water. However, concerns over where the water will come from have been raised Picture: ROB KNOWLES
MAMLAMBO CONSTRUCTION

Progress on the 25m-high tower reservoir at Thornhill, but where is the water coming from?

FROM LAST WEEK’S TOTT The new R33-million water tower being built at Thornhill has no water source to fill it. Talk of the Town looked into the issue after receiving a tip-off that the tower was being built based on a contract for a water…

  • Rob Knowles
NEMATO

View from the top

Driving along the R67 by Thornhill, you could not have failed to notice the enormous gantry crane and the concrete tower under construction. The tower is intended to support a 2.5Ml freshwater tanks to feed potable;e water to the…

  • Rob Knowles
PASSING THE TEST: After three days of successful testing Mamlambo construction workers and appointed contractors stood at the recently completed piles that will support the new 2.5Ml concrete reservoir Picture: ROB KNOWLES
EASTERCAPE

Helping resolve perennial water woes in Nemato

Mamlambo Construction begins building water tower TK MTIKI and ROB KNOWLES When complete, the new 2.6 mega-litre concrete reservoir at Thornhill four-ways will stand 11-storeys high, so high that approval was required from the South…

  • Rob Knowles