Debswana spends P5 million on Boteti River

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Diamond miner Debswana says it has spent P5 million on rehabilitation work meant to restore the Boteti River back to its natural course, after the company constructed water catchments structures at Mopipi for its Orapa/Letlhakane diamond mines in the 1970's.

However Debswana says the so-called dams were not actual dams but a reservoir that was built in a low lying area, a naturally existing salt pan, next to Mopipi village, where water was pumped from the river into it.

However the company admits the flow of the river was diverted towards the reservoir by building earth walls/bunds across the river in three places. Two canals were also cut from the river to the pump house next to the reservoir.

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Debswana spends P5 million on Boteti River

Diamond miner Debswana says it has spent P5 million on rehabilitation work meant to restore the Boteti River back to its natural course, after the company constructed water catchments structures at Mopipi for its Orapa/Letlhakane diamond mines in the 1970's.

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