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The Vaal Dam in South Africa was constructed in 1938 and lies 77 km south of OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg. The lake behind the dam wall has a surface area of about 320 square kilometres (120 sq mi) [ 1 ] and is 47 meters deep. The Vaal Dam lies on the Vaal River, which is one of South Africa's strongest-flowing rivers.
Maximum length. 18.8 km (11.7 mi) Normal elevation. 1,708 m (5,604 ft) 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 ...
Vaal Barrage. The Vaal River Barrage Reservoir is a dam on the Vaal River near Vanderbijlpark, border Gauteng and Free State, South Africa. The Barrage, created by a set of gates across the Vaal River, was built by Rand Water downstream of the Vaal Dam, in 1923. The reservoir is 64 kilometres long and has a total storage capacity of 63 million ...
1961. PO box. 1873. Area code. 016. Randvaal a small industrial community located in the Midvaal Local Municipality that falls under Meyerton CBD in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Randvaal consists of 3 surburbs which are Daleside, Henley on Klip and the industrial giant Valley settlements. Out of all three of it's amazing surburbs ...
The Vaal Triangle is a triangular area formed by Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark and Sasolburg about 60 km south of Johannesburg, South Africa. [1] The area forms a substantial urban complex. Meyerton, just north of Vereeniging, is also sometimes included in the complex, [2] and residents of Sharpeville, Boipatong, Bophelong, the greater Sebokeng ...
Website. www.vut.ac.za. Vaal University of Technology (VUT) is a higher education institution in South Africa. It attracts students from all over the country. It is one of the largest residential universities of technology, with about 20 000 students, 40 programs, all primarily taught in English. The campus and facilities are conducive to ...
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 ...
Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only 1.5% of the country's land area, it is the most populous province in South Africa, with more than a quarter (26%) of the national population; [7] the provincial population was approximately 16.1 million, according to mid ...