The National Department of Public Works in association with the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality started with the planning process to replace a bulk water supply line in terms of the routine maintenance management plan of the City. The project was challenging from the very start as the pipeline could not be replaced in its original servitude because the servitude traversed existing tourism infrastructure associated with the Freedom Park Heritage Site and Museum. A new route, therefore, needed to be planned to cause as least possible damage to the infrastructure whilst serving the engineering requirements. The best route alternative required a section of the scenic northern slope of the Salvokop ridge to be applied. SPOOR prepared a landscape rehabilitation plan which included rescuing some of the larger tree and shrub species occurring on the ridge and the planned pipeline route and harbouring them in a temporary nursery at the construction laydown area. A set of other locally occurring species were also selected as part of the plant palette so as to reverse the scarring of the proposed pipeline construction as soon as this is possible.