The South African State of Rivers Report: uMngeni River and Neighbouring Rivers and Streams

RHP

South African
River Health Programme

State of the Rivers Report
uMngeni River and Neighbouring Rivers and Streams

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTEXT	PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS
This report is based on the findings of river surveys that were conducted on the uMngeni, uMlazi, uMhluatuzana and uMbilo rivers between 1992 and 2002 as part of the implementation of the River Health Programme in KwaZulu-Natal.	Department of Water and Sanitation Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Water Research Commission Umgeni Water eThekwini Municipality CSIR Environmentek University of Natal

CONTRIBUTORS

This report is based on data that has been accumulated by several organisations over a number of years. The bulk of the information came from Umgeni Water's monitoring programme, with details of the Durban area coming from eThekwini Water Services. The following is a full list of contributors:

Ernita van Wyk (CSIR - editor), Dirk Roux (RHP co-ordinator), Wilma Strydom (State-of-Rivers rerpoting co-ordinator), Neels Kleyhans (IWQS - fish and river habitat specialist), Chris Dickens (Umgeni Water, co-ordinator, text, data and photographs), Mark Graham (Umgeni Water, data and photographs), Tobile Bokwe (Umgeni Water - data), Cebo Mhlongo (Umgeni Water - invertebrates), Kim Hodgson (Umgeni Water - water quality), Nonto Simelane and Alka Ramnath (Umgeni Water - GIS maps), Mike Coke (fish specialist), Hugh Dixon-Paver (DWAF - aquatic weeds), Charlie Joubert (DWAF - squatter settlements), Stan Jacobs (Umgeni Water - alien eradication), Steve Terry (Umgeni Water - pollution, lower uMlazi and photographs), Ian Bailey (Umgeni Water - Duzi marathon), Nevil Quinn (University of Natal - estuary), Bob Crass (long time enthusiast and expert - trout), Jake Alletson (Alletson Ecologists - angling), Roy Wadeson (IWR Environmental - geomorphology), Angus Burns (Umlaas Irrigation Board - uMlazi catchment), Kathleen Gordon-Grey (long time expert - riparian vegetation), Mike Samways (University of Natal - dragonflies), Rob Markham (Msinsi Holdings - dam recreation), Don Kotze (University of Natal - wetlands), Tony Bailey and Siobhan Jackson (eThekwini Municipality - water quality), Shamilla Nunkumar (University of Durban-Westville - invertebrate data), Natal Witness, Natal Museum, and Killi Campbell library (historical pictures), Paul Skelton (South African Institute of Aquatic Biodidversity - fish sketches), Department of Environmental Affairs , Cape Town (satellite images), Ferdy de Moor (Albany Museum - picture - extinct mayfly), Penny Barnard (Rhodes University - cultural aspects), CA Tham (University of Natal - cultural aspects), Sunday Tribune (Durban picture).