PROJECTS
Umvoto was appointed in 2000 to undertake a project on the Deep Artesian Groundwater Exploration for Oudtshoorn Supply (DAGEOS), now known as the Oudtshoorn Groundwater Project (OGP). Drilling of initial exploration and production boreholes targeting the Peninsula Aquifer of the Table Mountain Group within the Blossoms and Mistkraal Wellfields was completed in 2015 and includes…
Umvoto was the lead consultant for the Department of Water and Sanitation’s National Water Resource Planning Directorate on the development and subsequent support to the implementation and maintenance of Reconciliation Strategies for all Towns in the Southern Planning Region. This undertaking required the projection of domestic water demand, available water supply, associated intervention options and…
Umvoto was contracted by Circum Minerals from 2013 to 2016 to undertake the water resource assessment for the Danakil Potash Project in the Danakil Depression, North Eastern Ethiopia (the hottest inhabited place on Earth, with annual average temperatures in the range of 36-37 degrees Celsius). This involved groundwater assessment and development including desktop studies, remote…
Hermanus Umvoto was appointed by Overstrand Local Municipality (LM) in 2001 to proceed with a groundwater investigation and exploration to augment the water supply to the growing town of Hermanus. After completing the drilling and testing programme at Gateway Wellfield and the surrounding area in the mid-2000s, with groundwater abstraction being initiated from the fractured…
Umvoto was appointed by the Department of Water and Sanitation in 2016 as the lead Professional Service Provider for a feasibility plan and study execution for groundwater resource development of the Malmani Subgroup dolomites within the Olifants River Water Supply System (ORWSS) (which arc across the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces). The aim was to secure…
