The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate has welcomed over 23 highly specialised trucks to its fleet to better aid water and sanitation service delivery in communities across Cape Town.
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In the 2022/2023 financial year, the City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate spent just over R53 million in procuring jet machine trucks, vacuum tanker trucks and jet vacuum combination trucks.
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The three types of trucks were built specifically to meet the directorate’s needs using the latest internationally available technology:
- Jet Machine Trucks: Each truck has a 5 000 litre water tank capacity and can release water at a very high pressure of 240 to 245 litres per minute. These trucks are mainly used to clear blocked sewer pipes.
- Vacuum Tanker Trucks: They can draw 10 000 litres of raw sewage at a time and are used for emptying septic tanks.
- Jet Vacuum Combination Trucks: This is essentially a combination of the jet machine and the vacuum tanker truck.
These new concept trucks have one tank compared to previous trucks of its kind that had two tanks. They have a dual capability and can unblock sewer drains and suction raw sewage.
The front part of the tank is for clean water to unblock sewer drains and has a capacity of 5 000 litres and it can release water at a high pressure.
The rear section of the tank is for raw sewage and has a tank capacity of 4 000 litres and it can suction to – 60 bars which make this a very versatile operations vehicle.
- WhatsApp 060 018 1505
- Online: www.capetown.gov.za/servicerequests
- Email [email protected]
- SMS 31373 (maximum 160 characters. Standard rates apply
- Call 0860 103 089
- Visit a City walk-in centre (see www.capetown.gov.za/facilities to find the one closest to you.
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