State of the Environment Reports

Ekurhuleni state of the environment report

Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality is supported by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and NORAD to complete an investigation into the state of the environment. One of the outcomes of this initiative is the state of the environment report presented below.

2004 State of Environment Report
The First Year State of the Environment Report for 2003/2004 was compiled to provide information to decision-makers to enable them to make informed decisions about the environment in Ekurhuleni. This document presents a summary of the above report, and functions to provide information on the condition of the existing environment in Ekurhuleni to the public, and to raise awareness of environmental issues. Therefore, both these documents will contribute to the progress toward the achievement of sustainable development.

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Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality First year state of the environment report 2003
Cover pages	61.1 KB
Table of Contents	53.7 KB
Chapter 1 Executive summary	73.5 KB
Chapter 2 Overview	275 KB
Chapter 3 Background and approach to state of the environment reporting	110 KB
Chapter 4 Driving forces of environmental change	1.01 MB
Chapter 5 Human environment	654 KB
Chapter 6 Cultural heritage	114 KB
Chapter 7 Land and Soils	289 KB
Chapter 8 Water resources	247 KB
Chapter 9 Atmosphere	183 KB
Chapter 10 Biodiversity and conservation	295 KB
Chapter 11 Environmental management	60.3 KB
Chapter 12 Way forward: Strategic priorities	31 KB
Appendix A Land use and land cover change	43.8 KB
Appendix B: Site description Blesbokspruit	167 KB
Appendix C: List of attendees	32.8 KB
Appendix D: Spatial metadata	14.5 KB
Appendix E: Collated list of SoE indicators	28.9 KB
Appendix F: Summary of known arts, cultural and heritage sites	56.2 KB
Appendix G: Plants traded medicinally	35.4 KB

Maps (to be downloaded separately)
Fig 2.1 Locality plan of Ekurhuleni	1.27 MB
Fig 2.5 Mean annual precipitation	1.49 MB
Fig 2.6 Topography	1.85 MB
Fig 2.8 Land use (2000)	1.58 MB
Fig 2.9 Land cover (2000)	1.81 MB
Fig 2.10 Surface water	1.92 MB
Fig 2.11 Geology	1.69 MB
Fig 2.12 Vegetation type, natural habitats and untransformed land	1.46 MB
Fig 4.4 Percentage of households per suburb receiving refuse removal services	1.99 MB
Fig 4.5 Location of solid wastes sites	1.64 MB
Fig 5.2 Population distribution	1.75 MB
Fig 5.4 Education	1.81 MB
Fig 5.6 Unemployment and income distribution	1.87 MB
Fig 5.9 Percentage of households having access to piped water inside the dwelling	1.80 MB
Fig 5.11 Household using coal as a source of heat	1.71 MB
Fig 5.15 Hospitals, clinics and police stations	1.84 MB
Fig 5.23 Noise exposure contours for 2002: Johannesburg international airport	2.27 MB
Fig 6.1Known locations of cultural heritage	1.78 MB
Fig 7.1 Soil and slope units	1.97 MB
Fig 7.2 Potential sources of soil pollution	1.88 MB
Fig 7.3 Land degradation - combined degradation index (CDI)	1.64 MB
Fig 7.4 Grass cover and rangeland condition in 2001	1.84 MB
Fig 7.5 Erosion hazard	1.79 MB
Fig 7.6 Land capability	1.72 MB
Fig7.7 General agricultural potential for irrigated crops	1.51 MB
Fig 7.8 Areas to be reserved for agriculture	1.55 MB
Fig 8.1 Location of scheduled industries, tailings dams, rock dumps and quarries	1.79 MB
Fig 8.2 Percentage of households with flush toilet facilities	1.72 MB
Fig 8.3 Surface water and water quality monitoring points	1.25 MB
Fig 9.6 Potential zones of air pollution and proposed monitoring stations	1.65 MB
Fig 10.1 Areas of conservation importance for plants	1.24 MB
Fig 10.2 Areas of conservation importance for birds	1.26 MB
Fig 10.3 Areas of conservation importance for mammals	1.22 MB
Fig 10.4 Areas of conservation importance for invertebrates	1.23 MB
Fig 10.5 Areas of conservation importance for the giant bullfrog	1.25 MB
Fig 10.9 Areas of conservation importance and protected areas	1.39 MB

Link to Ekurhuleni website:

Contact details:
Ms Elizabeth Olivier Oliviere@ekurhuleni.com
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
Private Bag X15
Brakpan
1540

Other state of the environment reports in Gauteng:

Ekurhuleni indicator reports and maps (Stats SA)