Umvoto 
After pulling together and showing resilience during the lockdown in 2020, Umvoto were tested yet again in 2021 with the loss of our founder and MD Rowena Hay and former Technical Director Dr Chris Hartnady (Read our tributes to Rowena Hay and Chris Hartnady). Their loss not only left a huge gap in Umvoto but…
Umvoto is pleased to announce that our Managing Director, Dr Kornelius Riemann, has been voted into the Groundwater Division’s (GWD) Executive Committee as the chairperson of the Western Cape Branch. The annual general meeting was held at this year’s GWD conference where the exiting committee announced that Dr Riemann had received overwhelming support from the…
Since 2020 Umvoto has been involved the action research Restoring the Waterways in the Philippi Horticultural Area project, led by Stellenbosch University Water Institute. This exciting action research project combines two-parts: collaborative water governance and physical clearance and restoration of part of the waterway network within the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA). The first part, centred…
The Orange, or Gariep River as it is locally named, is the longest river in South Africa. This transfrontier waterway rises in the Drakensberg of Lesotho as the Senqu River, at an altitude of 3000 metres above mean seal level. It follows a meandering route across the breadth of the southern sub-continent, brushing the Namibian…
Umvoto Africa continued as the principal hydrogeological consultants for the groundwater components of the City of Cape Town‘s New Water Programme (CCT NWP) under engineering consultants Zutari and iX engineers, which was implemented to diversify bulk water supply and improve long-term water security and resilience of the City. The CCT NWP groundwater projects target the…
The Biovac Institute Umvoto was commissioned by HI Calibre Engineering (Pty) Ltd on behalf of The Biologicals and Vaccines Institute of South Africa (Pty) Ltd (Biovac) to undertake a groundwater assessment (including a desktop study, field study and borehole siting) of the Biovac site in Ndabeni, Cape Town. Biovac currently uses municipal water for various…
Kenrock Country Estate Monitoring Following the completion of the 2018 groundwater assessment of Kenrock Country Estate, Umvoto was appointed Kenrock Homeowners’ Association to undertake a review of the estate’s Operational Environmental Management Programme (OEMP). This review was undertaken to determine whether the estate currently operates in an environmentally sustainable manner and to provide monitoring recommendations…
Umvoto is in the process of supplying an automatic weather station and air quality sensors to Corbetti Geothermal PLC. The clean geothermal energy power project is being built in the Corbetti Caldera area of Oromia, which is in the Great Rift Valley some 250 km southwest of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Baseline monitoring of the pre-construction environment is…
Umvoto was appointed by Southern Oil (Pty) Ltd (SOILL) to delineate the 1:100 year floodline on their Moorreesburg property, where their current operations occur and where planned future plant upgrades are to take place. The main objective of the assessment was to determine if the proposed SOILL site development would be impacted by flooding of…
Monitoring Borehole Drilling and Water Quality Sampling Umvoto was commissioned by a corrosion protection specialist to undertake the drilling of two monitoring boreholes into the Cape Flats Aquifer (CFA), and baseline hydrochemical analysis of CFA groundwater from these two boreholes, at a new facility in Bellville, Cape Town. Once operations at the facility begin Umvoto…
