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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 ...
Grassridge Dam Groot Brak River 44,5 [2] Groendal Dam Swartopz River 11,7 [2] Gubu Dam Gubu River 8,6 [2] Golden Ridge Dam: Impofu Dam Krom River 105,8 [2] 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 ...
Dams in South Africa — for water supply reservoirs and/or flood control. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory.
The dam wall was raised by 1.5 m in 1935 and again by 5.8 m (total capacity 327,628,072 m 3) in 1951/52 to cope with the loss of storage volume. [1] The rebuilt dam was opened on 26 April 1952, by the then Minister of Land and Irrigation, J. G. Strijdom , with work supervised by the Sundays River Irrigation Board, with J. Kevin Murphy as the ...
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.
Leeu-Gamka Dam is an earth-fill type dam located on the Leeuw River, near Beaufort West, Western Cape, South Africa. It was established in 1959 and it serves mainly for irrigation purposes. It was established in 1959 and it serves mainly for irrigation purposes.
Woodstock Dam is located on the upper reaches of the Tugela, KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa and is the main source of water for the Thukela-Vaal Transfer Scheme. [1] The dam was commissioned in 1982, has a storage capacity of 373.26 million cubic metres (13.182 × 10 ^ 9 cu ft), [ 1 ] and a surface area of 29.129 square kilometres (11. ...
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.