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The Democratic Alliance has urged the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs to act immediately to avert overflow of acid mine drainage below the City of Johannesburg. The city sits on top of what is referred to as the Central Basin, an area with a legacy of over 100 years of mining. In the absence of the pumping of mine water from this basin for more than a year now, the acid mine drainage is rising at between 600mm and 900mm a day, with its current level being 600m below the surface. At this rate overflow will happen in the city, possibly even in the CBD, in early 2012, compromising the integrity of buildings and causing incalculable damage.
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