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The construction of Vaal Dam started during the depression of the early thirties and the dam was completed in 1938 with a wall height of 54.2 metres (178 ft) above lowest foundation and a full supply capacity of 994,000,000 cubic metres (3.51 × 10 10 cu ft). The dam is a concrete gravity structure with an earthfill section on the right flank.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Arizona. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
The Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme is an energy storage facility built in the South African provinces of Free State and KwaZulu-Natal starting in 1974 and completed by 1981. [ 2 ] Four dams are involved in the scheme; the Driekloof Dam ( joined to the Sterkfontein Dam ), the Kilburn Dam , the Woodstock Dam and the Driel Barrage.
The current Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme. The first phase of the project, which began in 1970, was commissioned on 8 November 1974. [5]From 1994, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry of the Government of South Africa studied the means of increasing the volume of water available in the Vaal basin for agricultural use in particular.
Upper Vaal WMA, or Upper Vaal Water Management Area (coded: 8), is a Water Management Area that includes the following major rivers: the Wilge River, Liebenbergsvlei River, Mooi River and Vaal River, and covers the following Dams: Boskop Dam Mooi River; Grootdraai Dam Vaal River; Klerkskraal Dam Mooi River; Klipdrift Dam Loop Spruit ...
The Little Vaal River starts in an escarpment near Ermelo. Near Memel in the Free State is where the Klip River begins. The Watervals River begins in Secunda, Mpumalanga. The Wilge River used to meet the Vaal River before the Vaal Dam was built in 1938; now the water flows straight into the dam. [5] Kromelmboogspruit joins the Vaal near the ...
The As River Outfall is situated 9 km north of Clarens and was opened in 1998. The As delivers water to the Saulspoort Dam and Liebenbergsvlei and Wilge Rivers beyond, where after the water enters the Vaal Dam. The discharge point in the Little Caledon River east of Clarens, which serves as a conduit to the Caledon (or Mohokare) River.
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]