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The Steenbras Dam ("STEE-un bruss"), now referred to as Steenbras Lower Dam, is a gravity concrete arch type dam located in the Hottentots-Holland mountains, above Gordons Bay, near Cape Town in South Africa. It is one of the six large dams that make up the Western Cape Water Supply System.
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.
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 ...
Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam capacity. In late 2017, there were first mentions of plans for "Day Zero", a shorthand reference for the day when the water level of the major dams supplying the City could ...
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.
The Steenbras Dam, one of Cape Town's suppliers of drinking water, is located behind the mountain above the town. Gordon's Bay has a blue flag beach, Bikini Beach, to the south of the harbour, which is generally popular, particularly with students from the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University. [4]
Berg WMA, or Berg Water Management Area (coded: 19), [clarification needed] Include the following major rivers: the Berg River, Diep River and Steenbras River, and covers the following Dams: Berg River Dam Berg River; Misverstand Dam Berg River; Lower Steenbras Dam Steenbras River; Upper Steenbras Dam Steenbras River; Voëlvlei Dam Voëlvlei River
The red steenbras was an important recreational and commercial fisheries target in South Africa but in 2012 a moratorium was placed on its fishing. It is a long lived and slowing maturing fish that undertake a northwards migration to off the Eastern Cape to spawn. Here they were historically fished for by both recreational and commercial line ...
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