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  2. Vaal Dam - Wikipedia

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    This water is piped from Lesotho into the Liebenbergsvlei and Wilge Rivers. The Sterkfontein Dam forms part of the Tugela-Vaal water transfer scheme for the interbasin transfer of water from the Thukela River in KwaZulu-Natal to boost the levels in the Vaal River System. Water from the Sterkfontein Dam is released once the Vaal Dam drops to ...

  3. Vaal River - Wikipedia

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    The Vaal River (/ ˈ v ɑː l / Afrikaans pronunciation:; Khoemana: ǀHaiǃarib) is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa.The river has its source near Breyten in Mpumalanga province, east of Johannesburg and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Ermelo and only about 240 kilometres (150 mi) from the Indian Ocean. [1]

  4. Grootdraai Dam - Wikipedia

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    Any water shortages to the power stations would be disastrous for South Africa since 80% of the country's electricity is dependent on water from the Komati-Usutu-Vaal system. It was estimated that the newly completed (1982) Grootdraai Dam would empty within a matter of months and an emergency scheme was therefore initiated to pump water ...

  5. Johannesburg Emergency Water Supply - Wikipedia

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    This dam became a part of the Vaal River Catchment System. Which is made up of four subcatchment regions ( Grootdraai, Waterval, Wilge and the Vaal Dam reservoir). [7] Alternately known as the Integrated Vaal River System (IVRS). In 1974, the Thukela Vaal River water transfer scheme pumped water up from kwa Zulu Natal to the Sterkfontein Dam ...

  6. Sterkfontein Dam - Wikipedia

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    The Sterkfontein Dam, located just outside the town of Harrismith, in the Free State, province of South Africa, is part of the Tugela-Vaal Water Project and the Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme, and located on the Nuwejaarspruit, a tributary of the Wilge River in the upper catchment area of the Vaal River. [2]

  7. Bloemhof Dam - Wikipedia

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    It is located at the confluence of the Vaal River and the Vet River, on the border between the North West and Free State provinces. The dam wall has a total length of 4,270 metres (14,010 ft) The reservoir is very shallow, [clarification needed] and therefore needs a large area to mean anything for water storage. The area around the reservoir ...

  8. Tugela Vaal Transfer Scheme - Wikipedia

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    The Tugela Vaal water Transfer Scheme is an irrigation project developed in the Drakensberg mountains at the Oliviershoek Pass in South Africa. [ 1 ] The project will thus allow the annual transfer from the Tugela basin (in KwaZulu-Natal ) of 630 million m3 of water to the Vaal basin (in the Free State ) in the north, and ultimately the Vaal ...

  9. Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme - Wikipedia

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    It is named after the Vaal River and the Harts River, the Vaal River being its major tributary. [1] Water from a diversion weir in the Vaal River, near Warrenton, flows through a 1,176 km long network of canals. This system provides irrigation water to a total of 39,820ha scheduled land, industrial water to six towns and other industrial water ...