Zandvlei Trust

The Sand River Catchment Forum and Zandvlei Action Committee (ZAC) – meeting minutes.

The Background

The initiative of the CSRM Branch (Catchment, Stormwater and River Management) of the TR&S Directorate (Transport Roads and Stormwater) of the City of Cape Town. Zandvlei Trust members lobbied the City to start a forum to discuss the issues of the Catchment.
This Forum started in 1998 and provides the opportunity for Civil Society, National, Provincial and Local Government to discuss and formulate management options for the Catchment;

• so as to enhance water quality,

• minimize flood risks and 

• increase general amenity value of the drainage system and its immediate environs.

The founding Chairman, was Bryan Nicolson from Catchment, Stormwater and River Management of the City of Cape Town.
Vincent Marincowitz, a Zandvlei Trust Exco member, lobbied for the formulation of this forum, along with others.

• The draft minutes of the meetings, below, are not signed or approved.

• These are for general information, so that the workings and discussions of this group may be understood.

• Their concern is the management of the Catchment of Zandvlei.

• The Zandvlei Action Committee (ZAC) minutes are annexed to the Sand River Catchment Forum minutes. This group of City officials and civil society user groups of  Zandvlei, meet to discuss and "put into action" measures to help with the overall management of this estuary, river systems, wetlands and waterbody.

Action since the demise of the Forum meetings in Sept 2005

July 2007 – The agenda for the first re-instated meeting on 24 July 2007 has been sent to the role players.

March 2007 –  An outcome of the last Mayoral meeting is that the Forum will start again. Martin Thompson will Chair the meetings.
Zandvlei Trust proposes these meetings should be held quarterly with all the representatives of the civil society and the relevant City officals in the catchment of Zandvlei.

February 2007 – The Mayor asked Barry Wood to start the Sand River Catchment Forum Meetings again.

January 2007 – Zandvlei Trust is lobbying to have these importnat meetings re-instated. Meetings with the Mayor of Cape Town took place.

September 2005 – Chairman of the SRCMF left the City, and no further Sand River Catchment Forum meetings have taken place.

Minutes 2008   updated 09/08/2008

Minutes 2007

Minutes 2006

Minutes 2005   (Sand River Catchment Forum and ZAC minutes)

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Zandvlei Catchment Rivers.