OVERBERG DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
Municipalities in Bredasdorp

To render sustainable, client directed services and to be the preferred Provider of Shared Services within the Overberg. The Overberg District Municipality is a District Municipality that governs the Overberg region in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It stretches from the Hottentots-Holland Mountains in the west to the Breede River mouth in the east, and as far as the Riviersonderend Mountains in the north. It includes Cape Agulhas, the southern-most point in Africa, and has coastlines on both the Atlantic and Indian oceans. The largest town is Grabouw in the Elgin Valley adjacent to the Hottentots-Holland on the north-western edge of the district. A Thusong Service Centre is operational in each of the four B-municipalities in the Overberg District, viz. Disaster Management The Overberg Fire & Rescue Services renders a fire service in the municipal areas of. Rescue depots are situated in each of these areas, including Grabouw and Villiersdorp, fire & rescue service to Overstrand Municipality, as and when required. The Overberg Region is prone to severe veld fires during summer. through the area, increases pressure on the service in terms of rescue operations over a. The impact of veld fires could serve to be harmful and destructive for the inhabitants of the Overberg Region and the regional economy. However, the Overberg Fire & Rescue has thus far managed to effectively respond to a variety of incidents throughout the entire Overberg Region. Throughout the entire Western Cape, Overberg Fire & Rescue is the only provider managing a helicopter rescue programme. The Overberg Fire & Rescue Services renders a fire service in the municipal areas of. To ensure effective and maintain implementation of sustainable Municipal Health Services practices throughout the Overberg District to progressively achieve Municipal Health Services goals. Food safety control by sampling, general hygiene requirements for food premises and transport of food, health education for food handlers and certification of foodstuffs for export, sampling of bottled water. Do the enforcement of general hygiene requirements for milking sheds, the transport of milk and related matters. Manage the monitoring process and collect information on the safe collection and disposal of solid waste ( including house hold waste ) and with special reverence to the impact there of on people and the environment. Manage the monitoring process and collect information on the safe handling and disposal of medical waste with special reverence to the impact there of on people and the environment. Monitor all premises, including all residential, industrial andgovernmental premises ( hospitals, prisons, police stations), render a building control service and evaluate development applications from an environmental health point of view. Manage control and monitoring environmental health aspects of epidemics, pandemics and notifiable diseases. Monitoring the control of rodents, flies, cockroaches and other pests that can spread diseases to man, is of importance under this heading. Monitor environmental pollution ( AIR, SOIL and WATER ) National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, ( Act 39 of 2004) Standards and Regulations District Municipalities is regulating the Listed Activities in the district. Monitoring chemical safety at food premises and on premises in general.