Service Contract No 2007 / 147-446 - Swaziland

pumps. 2 x Howden 100-400 in the river pump station and 2 x Howden 100-250 in thebooster pump station.Figure 2. Maphobeni balancing dam‣ An intake sump was constructed with phase two river pump station. A provision wasmade for phase one.‣ Phase two laterals and sub-mains were designed so as to handle flow from allhydromatics along the lateral. Generally they start of from the sub-main as 75mmreducing to 63mm then 50mm at the end.‣ The size of phase one lateral is not known for sure.‣ Maphobeni irrigation scheme was developed on three types of soils, the Lesibovu,Rondspring and Somerling soil series. The L and R sets are deep, red, wellstructured, free draining soils with high water holding capacity and highly fertile. The Ssets are type three soils (land classification) with shallow but well structured soils,draining freely, and low water holding capacity.‣ Three sugarcane varieties are under cultivation, N23, N19 and NCo376Maphobeni Farmers Association Report - 2009 Page - 3 -