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Map of the Steenbras Dams and their catchment area. The dam is on the Steenbras River, which, in common with most rivers in the Western Cape, has a low sediment load and delivers water of very high quality. The river and dam are named after the steenbras, a fish endemic to South Africa. [2] [3]
English: Map showing Steenbras Dam and Steenbras Upper Dam in South Africa, their catchment area and some of the associated infrastructure. Date: 12 August 2021: Source:
Steenbras Upper Dam is an earth-fill type dam located in the Hottentots Holland Mountains above Gordons Bay in the Western Cape, South Africa. It impounds the Steenbras River upstream of the older Steenbras Dam. The dam was constructed in 1977 for the City of Cape Town and serves mainly for municipal and industrial use. The hazard potential of ...
Map of the Steenbras system, including the dams and the power station. The Steenbras Upper Dam impounds the Steenbras River at an altitude of approximately 375 metres in the Hottentots Holland Mountains, upstream of the original Steenbras Dam (which is not part of the hydroelectric scheme).
Other storage dams of the WCWSS are the Voëlvlei Dam (159 million cubic meters), the Wemmershoek Dam (59 million cubic meter) in the Berg River basin, the Upper and Lower Steenbras Dams on the Steenbras River as well as the Palmiet Pumped Storage Scheme dams on the Palmiet River, from which water can be transferred to the Steenbras dams. [5]
The river was dammed in the early 20th century as a water supply for Cape Town. The Steenbras Dam originally had a capacity of 2.9 x 10 6 m 3 and was completes in 1921. It was extended by raiding the wall in 1928 and 1952, to a capacity of 34.3 x 10 6 m 3 [2] In 1977 the Steenbras Upper Dam was constructed directly upstream.
S ^ The Steenbras Dam – Upper and Steenbras Hydro-Electric Lower Dam form part of the Steenbras Pumped Storage Scheme; V ^ The Voëlvlei Dam is an off-channel reservoir supplied by canals from the Klein Berg River, Leeu River and Vier-en-Twintig River, and discharging by canal into the Great Berg River.
Deutsch: Steenbras Damm in den Hottentots-Holland Bergen, Südafrika. Date: ... Steenbras Dam located in the ''Hottentots-Holland Mountains'', South Africa