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The Water and Sanitation Department opened more sluice gates last Friday to maintain the dam’s water level, which is already well beyond 100 percent capacity.
Seven sluice gates at the Bloemhof Dam and 10 at the Vaal Dam were opened last Friday, 25 April. However, according to the Water and Sanitation Department, two sluice gates at the Vaal Dam will ...
People living along the banks of the Vaal River and in the flood plain have been advised to move as water is released from the Vaal Dam into the river. Water levels in the Vaal dam increased from ...
believing the current water levels to be manageable. Authorities continue to monitor the situation closely and may open additional sluice gates if inflows into the Vaal Dam persist at high rates.
As the water level of the Vaal dam nears the critical 18% mark, preparations are under way to release water from the back-up Sterkfontein dam to augment water supply for Gauteng and surrounding ...
On some old mine maps, it is referred to as the Russell Stream ... Barker added, “We go to all of the trouble and expense of treating water and pumping it uphill from the Vaal Dam, only to lose half ...
Picture: Science Photo Library via AFP JOHANNESBURG - The Water and Sanitation Department is warning communities living along the Vaal and Harts rivers to be cautious of the cholera bacteria in ...