GRAAF-REINET NEWS - Residents from the greater Graaff-Reinet area are said to benefit from the introduction of a road infrastructure development project on the R63 outside Graaff-Reinet in the Dr Beyers Naude Local Municipality (DBNLM).
The South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL) has announced on 5 July that a road infrastructure development project will happen on the R63 outside Graaff-Reinet at Ouberg Pass Cutting.
SANRAL announced its commitment to enhancing road safety and socio-economic benefits in the form of job opportunities for local labourers and subcontracting of targeted enterprises. Stakeholders included small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs), women, youth, people with disabilities and military veterans.
The project involves the installation of a rockfall netting secured by rock dowels in a specified arrangement, securing large protruding and smaller unstable boulders and application of shotcrete over layers within the mudstone and dolerite showing evidence of disintegration. Catch fences will also be installed at the slope summit.
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