5th Precinct: HURLING SWAAI PUMP - Reclaim Camissa - Citizen Project (sitios de interés)

available streams. Each pump was built over a well supplied by a wooden pipeline (later iron was used). At the end of the pipe in a well, a ball cock was attached which kept the cistern regularly supplied and prevented waste.

Pumps mentioned include those that were situated on Burgherwagtesplein (Greenmarket Square);Boerenplein (Riebeeck Square) and one in Bree Street - and by all accounts pretty much existed for each street/neighbourhood area. The Hurling swaai-pump is the only one that remains.

The swaai-pump was designed by the French Architect, Thibault. It was constructed as part ofthe improvements to Cape Town's water supply in 1813 and declared a National Monument in 1937. Archival evidence indicates that the spout was carved by Anton Anreith.The spout is virtually identical to the "green medicine man" used in water features across Indonesia. 

Under the road, exists a reservoir that apparently holds in the region of 700 cubic metres of water. The water was formerly piped here, from the Field of Springs and from Waterhof Spring.

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