Council intends to phase out bitumen for fly ash

Selebi-Phikwe Town Council
Selebi-Phikwe Town Council

SELEBI-PHIKWE: In an effort to make the town conducive for potential investors council has embarked on maintenance of infrastructure and has since discovered a new cost effective technology to maintain internal roads.

Town clerk, Godimo Garegope has said that the technology involves using the fly ash that would be sourced from Morupule Coal Mine in Palapye instead of the usual bitumen, interlocking bricks and concrete that is expensive. 

“We want to experiment it and if it proves effective then we use it for internal roads. The fly ash is currently stockpiled because it is no longer of use by the mine so it would be delivered to us and in that way we would only incur transport costs. Again Palapye is not very far from us,” he said. He said if there is willingness they would also engage other municipalities such as the Central District Council to try out the new technology on a short stretch of road with a lot of traffic to test its durability. 

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