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This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2009) Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The following is a partial list of dams in South Africa. In South African English (as well as Afrikaans), a dam refers to both the wall as well as the reservoir or lake that ...
Vanderkloof Dam is the second-largest dam in South Africa (in volume), having the highest dam wall in the country at 108 metres (354 ft). The dam was commissioned in 1977; it has a capacity of 3,187.557 million cubic metres (2,584,195 acre⋅ft) and a surface area of 133.43 square kilometres (51.52 sq mi) when full.
Jozanashoek Dam Sterkspruit River 9,5 [2] Katrivier Dam Kat River 24,9 [2] Kommandodrift Dam Tarka River 55,9 [2] Koega Dam Koega River 126 [2] Kromrivier Dam Krom River 35,3 [2] Laing Dam Buffalo River 19 [2] Lake Arthur Dam Tarka River 11,3 [2] Loerie Dam Loeriespruit River 3,1 [2] Lubisi Dam Indwe River 113,6 [2] Mabeleni Dam Mhlahlane River ...
The Berg River Dam was the first dam in South Africa to be designed, constructed and operated in accordance with the guidelines of the World Commission on Dams. [2] According to the South African government this was confirmed by a 2001 a review of the project's processes. [ 6 ]
The Western Cape Water Supply System (WCWSS) is a complex water supply system in the Western Cape region of South Africa, comprising an inter-linked system of six main dams, pipelines, tunnels and distribution networks, and a number of minor dams, some owned and operated by the Department of Water and Sanitation and some by the City of Cape ...
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]
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 dam has a capacity of 7,015,000 cubic metres (247,700,000 cu ft). The Bongolo Dam, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from town on the Dordrecht road, is one of Queenstown's main sources of water, its main purpose is for industrial and municipal usage. [1] The wall was begun in 1905 and was for years the largest concrete dam wall in South Africa.