The construction activities for the first phase of the Mossel Bay UISP is progressing well.  The civil contractor (Entsha Henra) started with construction of the retaining walls at the TRA facility (Temporary Relocation Area). The TRA will consist of 250 housing units together with ablution facilities and storage and will temporarily accommodate the households that will be relocated from the informal settlement areas to make way for the construction of formalised enhanced serviced sites where the households will then again be settled on.

Construction at the TRA Facility:

Asla Construction also started pouring the foundations of the TRA units:

Some informal structures were in the way of link infrastructure (sewerage pipeline) that is required in the area outside the TRA site to link the newly created infrastructure in the TRA facility with the municipal grid as well as the construction of stormwater channels to prevent flooding of the informal area once the TRA is constructed.  Those structures have since moved out the way to enable the construction to take place, and the construction of the sewer pipeline is also progressing well: