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Executive Member
How would you go about finding out if your property is entitled to a share of the lei water?
If your property is entitled to a share, but the canal has long fallen into disuse and is basically gone who is responsible for rebuilding it?
I'm in a small Karoo town with a leiwater system. My house is one of the older buildings (1914) and there is a lei water canal running at the bottom boundary that has been closed up and silted over for many years. I can see the remains of a canal / furrow at the boundary between myself and my neighbour (what used to be the middle of one property) that goes through the middle of my erf and joins the "canal"at the bottom. If there ever was leiwater to this house (and next door because they are the same age) how would I find out? And if we are entitled who would be responsible for rebuilding the canal?
I realise this is a huge and great unlikelihood even if there are records saying I have water rights, but nothing ventured nothing gained.
If your property is entitled to a share, but the canal has long fallen into disuse and is basically gone who is responsible for rebuilding it?
I'm in a small Karoo town with a leiwater system. My house is one of the older buildings (1914) and there is a lei water canal running at the bottom boundary that has been closed up and silted over for many years. I can see the remains of a canal / furrow at the boundary between myself and my neighbour (what used to be the middle of one property) that goes through the middle of my erf and joins the "canal"at the bottom. If there ever was leiwater to this house (and next door because they are the same age) how would I find out? And if we are entitled who would be responsible for rebuilding the canal?
I realise this is a huge and great unlikelihood even if there are records saying I have water rights, but nothing ventured nothing gained.