Re: [RR:200] Immediately revoke permit to operate from quarry at portion 26 of farm 22 Zouterivier, which is systematically destroying road in both directions
lou...@goodhorsesense.co.za
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Subject: Re: [RR:200] Immediately revoke permit to operate from quarry at portion 26 of farm 22 Zouterivier, which is systematically destroying road in both directions
From: Mal Morrow <malm...@gmail.com>
Date: 30/03/2010 10:19 am
Hello -
On publicity: please hang on until the end of today; I am trying to get more
out of the Council and it would be as well to get all the information that
we require before having to talk on radio or in the papers with incomplete
information.
The Council last week promised to send me an action plan in writing. I
certainly need this and intend to get it. It may turn out to be
unacceptable, but it might be exactly what we need. And if it is what I
hope it will be, then publicly embarrassing the Council before they have had
a chance to do anything about it will not be constructive.
Tx && rgds,
Mal
On 30 March 2010 10:12, martinique chanelle Le-Gros <
martiniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Louise
>
> If you are wanting to take this to the media I would suggest contacting
> Cape Talk radio. I listen to Cape Talk on a daily basis and they are really
> good in follow up on stories and contact the right people to get the
> problems sorted out.
>
> The 2 best presenter to contact are Aden Thomas( the morning show) and John
> Maytham( afternoon show) they are both great with following up on stories
> and cases.
>
> Maybe we should pop them an email or try and contact them. See email
> address and contact numbers below:
>
> Aden Thomas - ad...@capetalk.co.za
> John Maytham - Jo...@capetalk.co.za
> Studio Number - 021 446 0567
>
> Let me know if you need my help any further with this.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Martinique
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:56 AM, <lou...@goodhorsesense.co.za> wrote:
>
>> This is great Mal, lets hope some serious action will be taken. I must
>> admit, I have been seriously concerned for myself getting through the sand
>> pits... And my bakkie has plenty ground clearance. There is no way that a
>> normal vehicle can get through there without damage to the vehicle or
>> getting stuck. Not sure how you guys have managed thus far.
>>
>> The road needs repair and I am for getting a quote from Dries to do so,
>> however, unless the damage gets stopped, you will agree that we cannot
>> afford maintaining it for trucks to be used. It will be a week and we will
>> sit in the same situation.
>>
>> Personally I am seriously concerned about how I am going to get my horses
>> to the 3 shows which I am entered into for the month of April. There is
>> absolutely no way that I can take horses in a horsebox through there.
>>
>> I am livid to put it mildly that my peaceful country living has become a
>> war zone. In fact, this would be a reason for me NOT to own a weapon as I am
>> ready to bloody shoot someone. I am jailed as we all are and this is not
>> acceptable. I think we should consider going very public with this and I
>> believe it is called for. I am sure that the media would love to get their
>> hands on a story such as this. Maybe it will kick the bloody City into
>> action to actually do something for once. In fact, I say we give them until
>> week end and if something drastic, and I mean DRASTIC has not been done, I
>> am personally taking this to newspaper. I have officially had enough!
>>
>> If anyone has anything to add or suggest or even has some contacts for me
>> in the 'right places', please let me know!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Louise
>>
>> -original message-
>> Subject: [RR:196] Immediately revoke permit to operate from quarry at
>> portion 26 of farm 22 Zouterivier, which is systematically destroying road
>> in both directions
>> From: Mal Morrow <malm...@gmail.com>
>> Date: 30/03/2010 9:17 am
>>
>> Hello Ms Damon, Ms Spalding, Mr Massyn, Mr Viljoen, Mr Gonsalves,
>>
>> Since I wrote last, a notice you sent to Mr Wayne Claver, requiring him to
>> comply with the Council regulations laid down for his operation of the
>> quarry at portion 26 of farm 22 Zouterivier, has expired.
>>
>> Nevertheless, the condition of the quarry and the road has massively
>> deteriorated, especially in the past week.
>>
>> This morning, 12 heavy construction trucks are parked in the quarry
>> premises
>> awaiting loading. In the past several days the neighbours have seen that
>> these and other trucks are repeatedly returning to the quarry throughout
>> the
>> working day for reloads. This means that the servitude between the quarry
>> and the N7 is bearing an enormous weight of machinery and clay. The road
>> is
>> pitted with ruts, and is severely dangerous to drive in a small vehicle.
>> It
>> is made doubly dangerous by having to pass multiple trucks on the way.
>>
>> In addition, the quarry appears to be using water sourced from Anaheim,
>> which is a farm down the same servitude but in the other direction, to
>> water
>> the road. They are moving a heavy water truck up and down this stretch of
>> road. No attempt has been made to repair the road in that direction, and
>> the road is now utterly impassable for anything other than 4x4 traffic.
>> The
>> residents in that direction - myself included - are at their wits end. We
>> have stranded families. We can't get to work.
>>
>> This situation has deteriorated so substantially that I can only urge you
>> to
>> take the most immediate action to finalise the regulations that you laid
>> down when granting the quarry its permit to operate. You have given Mr
>> Claver 30 days to comply, and he has NOT complied. So far from this, he
>> is
>> truculently ignoring your order to comply, and making the situation far
>> worse.
>>
>> The quarry's conditions of operation allow you, in the final resort, to
>> revoke the quarry's permit to operate. At this point, I think you must
>> agree with me that there is no possible basis for believing that Mr Claver
>> and his company will cooperate with you and abide by the conditions.
>>
>> Please therefore immediately indicate to me how you will go about shutting
>> down the quarry once and for all. I expect from you a timetable and some
>> indication that the SAPS will be involved to enforce your notice to revoke
>> the conditional permit to operate the quarry.
>>
>> Additionally, please comply with answers my list of questions that I
>> previously submitted, and to which I have had extremely limited answer to
>> date:
>>
>> 1. A copy of the Environmental Management Plan as submitted and
>> supported
>> by the Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs (received, thank you).
>> 2. Written evidence that Cape Nature Conservation is satisfied with this
>> plan (outstanding).
>> 3. The name and contact details of the Council representative on the
>> Monitoring Committee, and complete minutes maintained by the Council of
>> meetings held by the Monitoring Committee (outstanding).
>> 4. Written evidence that waste and refuse disposal are to the
>> satisfaction of the Engineering Services Department (outstanding).
>> 5. Written evidence that water potability is to the satisfaction of the
>> Health Services Department (outstanding).
>> 6. Written evidence that ablution facilities meet the requirements of
>> the
>> Engineering Services Department, the Executive Director: Health and
>> Housing
>> and the National Building Regulations (outstanding).
>> 7. Written evidence that the upgrading and maintenance of the existing
>> access road is to a standard satisfactory to the Director: Engineering
>> Services (outstanding).
>> 8. Written evidence that the operator acknowledges legal responsibility
>> for the condition of the road (outstanding).
>> 9. Receipts and/or invoices of a financial guarantee made to the
>> Executive Director: Engineering and Planning in respect of maintenance
>> of
>> the road, and evidence that this amount is still held by the Council for
>> the
>> purposes defined (outstanding).
>>
>> Given the urgency of the situation, and that the normal functioning of our
>> neighbourhood has completely broken down, and that more than 30 days have
>> passed in which we expect the quarry to comply, and that I originally
>> asked
>> for action on these questions on 12th March 2010, I expect to have a
>> response by the close of business today.
>>
>> Sincerely yours,
>>
>> Mal Morrow
>> P: Caesura, PO Box 83, Philadelphia 7304
>> Land owner: Caesura, Portion 56 of Farm 22, Zouterivier, Klein Dassenberg
>> C: +27 (84) 9944364
>> W: +27 (21) 4171849
>> F: +27 (86) 5114459
>> E: malm...@gmail.com
>>
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