Clean water for Cape Town, powered by Potsdam

Clean water for Cape Town, powered by Potsdam

Potsdam Wastewater Treatment Plant, South Africa – A major project for the future

The Potsdam Waste Water Treatment works is receiving an upgrade worth R5,2Bn. This is one of the City of Cape Town’s largest infrastructure upgrades and is set to be completed in 2027.

This upgrade will increase the plant’s capacity from 47ML per day to 100ML per day.

As part of this upgrade, the Potsdam WWTW is also receiving a new dewatering building. The mechanical contractor responsible for the dewatering building is PCI Africa which, is part of a Consortium of companies working together on the Mechanical and Electrical portions for this Potsdam Upgrade.

This is the 3rd dewatering project that Bellmer and PCI have worked on together.

Eight WinklePresses WPG 3 S (5 in operation, 3 on standby) will be used for primary sludge dewatering. Eight Cascades, consisting of TurboDrain TDC 3 and WinklePresses WPK 3 S (also 5 in operation, 3 on standby) will take care of the dewatering of the waste activated sludge.

A number of these machines have already started up, to assist with the sludge dewatering load, while the existing works while the upgrade of the rest of the works is still taking place.

Looking forward to assisting the City of Cape Town to improve its waste handling capability at yet another plant.