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Hammerhead benefits in replacing Gauteng’s ageing pipelines

 
Aging water infrastructure in cities throughout Gauteng is leading to a loss of millions of litres of potable water, while sewerage leaks silently contaminate the province’s waterways and ground water. With thousands of pipelines already well over the 50-year mark and equally many over 100 years old, failures are becoming common-place and companies such as specialised pipe-laying company Brakpan-based Gokor Construction are increasingly being called to find ways of replacing the pipes under layers of underground infrastructure and below houses, hospitals, roadways and buildings.
 
 
 
 
 

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