Despite the substantial decrease since April, the Vaal Dam continues to maintain high water levels, currently standing at 107 ...

Few people living in South Africa’s Gauteng, Free State, and North West provinces have seen or appreciated the significance of the Vaal Barrage, constructed between 1916 and 1922, and opened to ...

Going forward, the DWS has appointed Rand Water as the official Implementing agent to ensure that the Vaal River Barrage reservoir never experiences what it went through earlier this year and has ...

At the barrage there is a Goliath gantry crane that runs on the upstream face of the dam. This was part of the original equipment used to install the gates in 1922 and is still working.

The Vaal dam is currently 108 percent full with 17 flood gates expected to be open by 2pm on Thursday. The outflow was expected to reach 2550 cubic metres per second.

With the Vaal Dam at 120% capacity, 12 floodgates were opened, and the outflow at Bloemhof Dam was being kept at 3 200 cubic metres per second. ... According to the department, the Vaal Barrage was ...

The water would be drained into the Vaal River Barrage where it would be stored further, said Tsedu. Discover the Truth. Step into a world where the truth shines bright, and every headline is worth ...

These are from the Pioneer Dam in the Kruger National Park and a barrage in Phalaborwa where a radial gate failed after being opened to release floods after the cyclone. Vaal Dam officially full ...

If allowed to pass the Vaal River Barrage, the plant has access to a journey of about 1 000km of the middle and lower Vaal river, the Bloemhof Dam and then into. Search. Welcome. Login; ...

On Monday, the NSRI said it had rescued a 42-year-old Johannesburg man who was kayaking on the Vaal River. ... This occurred after a fourth sluice gate was opened at the Vaal barrage.

“The flotilla event on the Vaal River Barrage is three fold. Firstly, to resurrect an annual event that occurred on the Vaal River Barrage to celebrate the opening of the spring and summer ...