Starting at its source, exciting efforts to clean up the Jukskei River in downtown Johannesburg are gathering momentum – assisted by a range of organisations including SRK Consulting.
The public-private initiative is being driven by NGO Water for the Future, which SRK Consulting is supporting with specialised technical expertise on the gathering of data and the assessment of water sources, flow, and quality.
“SRK has played an invaluable role in this project from early on, generously contributing their time and experience,” said Water for the Future co-founder Romy Stander.
Dr Simon Lorentz, principal hydrologist at SRK Consulting, has spearheaded the company’s involvement, focusing on data gathering for future decision-making.
“There has been a small but significant start made to collecting time series data from the water discharge in the Jukskei headwater channel,” said Lorentz. “A monitoring station has been installed including meteorological instrumentation – donated and supported by Campbell Scientific Africa – and an automatic water quality sampling device with integrated flow measurement instrumentation.”
He highlighted that this will allow automated data collection on rainfall, wind and temperature variables relative to the |ow characteristics of the river and the quality of the water. Bureau Veritas has also partnered with the project to analyse the water quality of the automatically collected samples.
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