The Department of Water and Sanitation's weekly report on the state of the country's reservoirs indicates that water levels in Gauteng have remained stable, with the Vaal Dam continuing to show steady ...

The road across Hyrum Dam, 1800 W, will close to all traffic beginning Monday, June 2. In a public notice, Cache County ...

Residents and businesses affected by recent flooding along the Vaal River say it will take years to recover from the economic damage. The town of Bloemhof in the North West province sits on the ...

Bloemhof residents will have to wait for water leaving the Vaal Dam catchment area to flow through to the Bloemhof Dam and make its way downriver.

following the opening of 10 sluice gates at the Vaal Dam last week. This is up from 117.3 percent recorded the previous week. Department of Water and Sanitation spokesperson Wisane Mavasa said on ...

More sluice gates have been opened at Vaal Dam to manage water levels and those living downstream are feeling the brunt. According to the Department of Water and Sanitation spokesperson Wisane ...

At Grootdraai dam, the already opened gate has been increased to three metres, owing to the higher inflows of 967.47 m³/s, with a second gate opened to 1 m. The storage level is at 110.08%.

Amid rapidly rising water levels at the Vaal Dam due to heavy inflows from the upper catchments, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has opened all six sluice gates to manage the water inflow ...

At Bloemhof dam, water outflows were also increased incrementally from 500 m 3 /s to 800 m 3 /s in anticipation of the measured incoming flows upstream. Bloemhof dam, which had water levels of 106 ...

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Augrabies Falls National Park is located near Upington ... 18km gorge below,” says the SANParks website. The Vaal Dam over the weekend decreased by 2.72 percentage points.

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 ...