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Boskop Dam is an earth-fill type dam on the Mooi River, near Potchefstroom, North West Province, South Africa. [1] It was constructed in 1959. The main purpose of the dam is for irrigation and domestic usage. Its hazard potential is ranked as high, due to poor maintenance and the development of sink holes. [2]
Boskop Dam Nature Réserve; Boskop Wild Animal Park; O. P. M. Prozesky Bird Sanctuary; Dome Bergland Nature Park, site of a meteorite impact; The Trim Park, in the Green Belt area adjacent to the Mooi River; The North-West University Botanical Garden, adjacent to the university's Potchefstroom, covers an area of almost 3 hectares (7.4 acres ...
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Theewaterskloof dam has a capacity of 480,406 megalitres (16,965.4 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft) of water, and when full the reservoir covers an area of 5,059 hectares (12,500 acres). [2] The catchment area of 500 square kilometres (190 sq mi) is served by streams emanating in the Hottentots Holland mountain range.
The Boskop Man is an anatomically modern human fossil of the Middle Stone Age (Late Pleistocene) discovered in 1913 in South Africa. [1] The fossil was at first described as Homo capensis and considered a separate human species by Broom (1918), [2] but by the 1970s this "Boskopoid" type was widely recognized as representative of the modern Khoisan populations.
Reservoir water spread of the Salaulim Dam. The dam is a composite structure of earth-cum-masonry type of 42.70 metres (140.1 ft) height above the deepest foundation level. The length of dam at the crest is 1,004 metres (3,294 ft) and the reservoir water spread area (within Goa without inter-state implications) is 24 km 2 (9.3 sq mi). [1]
The reservoir for Dhom Dam on Krishna River in Wai, Maharashtra Dhom is a village in Wai Taluk , Satara district , Maharashtra state. Dhom is around 7.9 km from the taluk's main town, Wai, around 37.9 km from the district's main city, Satara , and around 155 km from the state capital, Mumbai .
The Kalabagh Dam (Urdu: کالا باغ ڈيم) is a proposed hydroelectric dam on the Indus River at Kalabagh in the Mianwali District of Punjab, Pakistan. The dam, first proposed in 1950s, has been intensely debated along ethnic and regional lines for several decades. [1] If constructed, the dam could generate 3,600 megawatts(MW) of electricity.