Utilisation   updated 30/06/2011
The different ways and when Zandvlei is used by visitors, residents, sports people need to be recorded.

photograph by David Muller.

See what local residents have done with their swimming pool one street block from Zandvlei.

Management interventions
These records will be put into a database to monitor the actions influences and results.

Litter Counts / Cleanups   updated 19/06/2011
We need people to record the litter quantities and type to be able to manage the problem better. 

On 06/06/2011 - World Enviroment Day and the Peninsula Paddle these visitors to from Fish Hoek and Simons Town collected a canadian canoe full of junk washed into Zandvlei via the Sand River.

photograph by Kim Kruyshaar

L to R - Jane and David Hofmeyer, Viv von der Heyden, Chris Kruyshaar, Kriss Barker, Kim Kruyshaar
and Derek Goldman.

We filled 6 bags and then had the equivalent of another four in the form of plastic crates with bottles, a 25 litre paint bucket. Part of a TV housing and 3 x computer monitor housings.

photograph by David Muller                                                                         photograph by David Muller

David Hart and Karen Cousins from the Marina cleared bags of litter July 2009, motor car bumpers, cushion seats and other junk from the northern shoreline of Zandvlei. Large amounts of litter are washed down the rivers in force as the canals were designed to move water from the "Flat areas" as quickly as possible. Our litter nets cannot hold back debris moving in this fast and powerful flow.

 

Sand River litter trap - 22/05/2007	Park Island - 2008
Sand River litter trap - 13/06/2006	Park Island - 2007
Sand River litter trap - 13/10/2001	Park Island - 2006
Sand River litter nets - 23/05/2007	Langevlei River litter trap - 22/05/2007
Sand River litter nets - 18/05/2007	Western shoreline of Zandvlei
Sand River litter nets - 24/04/2007	Westlake Wetlands Garden
-	Zandvlei estuary mouth area - 14/03/2010

photograph by Peter Joubert                                                   photograph by David Muller

The Sand River just after the 19/05/2007 storm,     Debris being removed in July 2009.
the litternet was "drowned" as it did not have
enough floatation.
This was rectified on the 23/05/2007.

Anecdotal observations
We need people to record stories about people and personalities of the area.

The Rise of the Blue Moon Hotel by Lin Sampson

Last twist at the Blue Moon Hotel  Duncan Hammond wrote the musical

Lea Road Hop Nick Taylor recalls the days of....