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AN INTRODUCTION TO GROUND WATER PRACTITIONERS
Our Vision is to become Africa’s Diverse Pioneering Water Partner
GWP is committed to making water an environmentally safe and sustainable reality. We are dedicated to delivering excellent service to our clients and conducting our work at the highest standards with integrity and honesty. We embrace our obligation toward the social improvement of Arica as a whole and strive to maintain long-term relationships with our clients and service providers.Our CEO is one of the founder members of the "Borehole water Association of
Southern Africa"; The company was originally called "Pump and Pipe
Centre". In 1980 the company changed its name to Ground Water Practitioners
and became a (PTY) LTD. The company is privately owned by Roy and Maryke Shearer
who have built up the company over a period of 30 years, to become the leaders
in the ground water industry. Roy underwent training in the USA on various aspects
of ground water and has used this to make the company leaders in the industry.
Our expertise is rated on our performance claims through third party and field
testing.
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The staff of Ground Water
Practitioners has grown to 33 employees and will soon invite a black partner
on board to become a black empowerment company. Our experience has taught
us the disciplines of the industry.
Pitfalls need to be alleviated
to save the client time, production loss, damage to equipment and loads of
money.
Ground Water Practitioners have many 'firsts' on the African continent...
- Installing pumps to a depth of 500 meters
- Hydraulic fracing of wells
- Methane wells & exploration
- Underground water monitoring
What services do we provide and what can we do for our customers?
- Pump selection and installations
- Borehole yield testing
- Irrigation
- Garden water features and fish ponds
- Pipeline trenching
- Rural water development projects and reticulation
- Hand pumps
- Aeration of lakes, dams and ponds
- Water tanks and stands
- Sectional sealing of polluted water in boreholes
- Formation sealing of drilled wells
- Fishing of lost equipment
- Well development and stimulation
- Down-hole camera inspections
- Permeability testing
- Fracing of rock and coal seems
- Mine dewatering projects
- Well rehabilitation
- Well cleaning and disinfection
- Drilling consultants
- Verticality testing of boreholes
- Pipeline and electrical reticulation
- Cisterns - Domestic - Industrial
Have we got the equipment to do the job?
In excess of R5,000,000 worth of equipment comprising, electronic equipment, down-hole camera equipment, work-over rigs, test rigs, frac rig, generators, welders, vehicles, trailers, cement pumps, high pressure triplex pumps, packers, centrifugal pumps, test pumps, and miscellaneous plant and tools are available to carry out most work on the African continent.
Will our customers have peace of mind when we execute a task?
From small holding owners to farmers, from consultants to mine engineers, from wellfields to municipalities and any water reticulation projects we have the experience with a record of safety, satisfied clientele and protecting the environment.
Is a job too small or too big for us?
We will do any job anywhere, big or small. We have worked throughout Southern Africa including islands off the Tanzania coast.
Why are we working on various mines?
Our continues training program and high safety standards make us favoured to execute work on mine premises. We calculate our risks and provide any mine with proper risk assessments. We are welcomed by mine engineers due to our attitude towards costs, maintenance, and downtime. We assist such engineers with pump choices, pipeline planning to discharge high volumes of water, verticality testing once the drilling is complete. A down-hole camera inspection can also be done to see if the casing is properly bedded and if perforations are correctly placed.
Can we rehabilitate old boreholes and clean them?
We have extensive experience in performing this task. Any unwanted debris is air-lifted out of the well. New casing can be installed if required or certain horizons can be sealed off to produce water of better quality.
Who can afford us?
Our quotation structure is developed to make us affordable for any individual, company, farmer or mine group. Equipment in stock is part of our operation.
- Pumps, spares and fittings for effecient service
- Workshops for any repairs on pumps, motors, pipes and discharge heads.
- Testing bay to check pump performances and specified curves
- Loan equipment to clients (Conditions apply)
Show me your lowest quotation in 2004!
R 350-00
Show me your highest quotation in 2004!
R 8 900 000-00
(Anyone can afford us!)
Show me some satisfied customers!
We are proud to list some of our major clients as follows:
- New Vaal Colliery:-
Well rehabilitation
- De Beers Mines Botswana: Deep well yield testing from 450M pump depths, for mine dewatering.
- X Strata Coal
S.A.:
Dewatering and mine supply
- Sishen Iron Ore
Co: Borehole video camera inspections
- Groundwater Consulting
Services: Various large projects.
- Jones & Wagner
Consulting: Borehole yield testing.
- V.G.C. Consulting:
Water supply for municipalities and towns
- K.L.M. Consulting:
Mine dewatering & yield testing
- Schoeman, Rossouw,
van Dyk, Hoffmann and Labuschagne Boerdery: Water supply irrigation
projects & pivots.
- WRP Consulting:
Rural water development projects
- Lesotho Water
affairs:
Rural water development projects
- Tswane Metropolitan
Council: Rural water supply
- Delmas Local Council: Water reticulation
- Dispose-tech
- Holfontein: Pumping of leachate
- Northern Cape
Gypsum Mining
- Finch Mine:
Underground water monitoring
- Steelpoort:
Platinum Mine dewatering and supply
- Various Collieries in the Witbank and Middelburg area
Who's who and to whom should I speak?
We believe that management should be accessible to our clients and therefore provide you with direct contact information.
- Managing Director: Roy Shearer
- Financial Director: Maryke Shearer
- Operations Manager: Gavin Botes
- Sales Manager: Vic van Staden
GWP consults to mining engineers for the planning of high volume water discharge.
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| Ground Water Witbank Road Sundra Mpumalanga South Africa |
| Postal Address |
| P.O.Box 107 Sundra 2200 Mpumalanga South Africa |
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