Dam Levels Western Cape - 14 Feb 2011

Feb 212011

Western Cape Province State of Dams on 2011-02-14

Dam Levels 2011 02 14

# Means latest available data
FSC is full storage capacity in million cubic meters

Dam	River	FSC	This Week	Last Week	Last Year
Berg River dam	Berg River	127.1	77.3	80.2	95.8
Brandvlei Dam	Lower Brandvlei River	284.3	52.9	54.8	61.9
Buffeljags Dam	Buffeljags River	4.6	100	100.6	44.3
Bulshoek Dam	Olifants River	4.9	83.8	87.6	77
Calitzdorp Dam	Nels River	4.9	56.6	55.5	32.9
Clanwilliam Dam	Olifants River	121.8	54.7	58.9	62.8
Duiwenhoks Dam	Duiwenhoks River	6.2	99.1	99.8	24.5
Eikenhof Dam	Palmiet River	28.9	67.1	70.2	63.4
Elandskloof Dam	Elands River	11	40.8	44.5	57.9
Ernest Robertson Dam	Groot Brak R	0.5	100.3	100.5	80.1
Floriskraal Dam	Buffels River	50.3	23.7	10.1	64.5
Gamka Dam	Gamka River	1.9	0	0	0
Gamkapoort Dam	Gamka River	36.3	103.5	106.6	38.4
Garden Route Dam	Swart River	10	100	100	26.5
Haarlem Dam	Groot River	4.7	100.5	101.1	24.9
Hartebeestkuil Dam	Hartenbos River	7.2	23.8	24.1	50.2
Kammanassie Dam	Kammanassie River	34.4	6.8	6.8	12
Keerom Dam	Nuy River	9.8	66.2	67.6	82.7
Klipberg Dam	Konings River	2	33.2	34.7	69.7
Korentepoort Dam	Korinte River	8.1	81.1	82.9	28.6
Kwaggaskloof Dam	Doorn River	173.9	50.5	52.3	59.1
Lakenvallei Dam	Sanddrifskloof River	10.3	86.2	86.8	94.8
Leeugamka Dam	Leeu River	14.1	68	53.5	2.6
Miertjieskraal Dam	Brand River	1.6	0	0.2	0
Misverstand Dam	Berg River	6.5	102.3	101.9	101.7
Oukloof Dam	Cordiers River	4.2	8.4	6.4	60.4
Pietersfontein Dam	Pietersfontein River	2	65	65.5	87.4
Poortjieskloof Dam	Groot River	9.8	44.5	44.4	69.7
Prinsrivier Dam	Prins River	2.3	19.7	10.8	32.6
Roode Els Berg Dam	Sanddrifskloof River	7.8	25.7	30.1	56.2
Steenbras Dam-Lower	Steenbras River	33.9	43.5	41.5	63.4
Steenbras Dam-Upper	Steenbras River	31.9	91.9	96.6	66.7
Stettynskloof Dam	Holsloot River	14.8	66.1	70.8	64.2
Stompdrift Dam	Olifants River	49.6	15.9	11.8	11.7
Theewaterskloof Dam	Riviersonderend	480.2	66	68	80.1
Voelvlei Dam	Voelvlei River	158.6	75.1	77.6	76.5
Wemmershoek Dam	Wemmers River	58.8	81.3	83.1	69.5
Wolwedans Dam	Groot Brak River	25.3	73.6	74.2	32.4

Kommer in Eden oor damme wat sak

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Oct 132010

In Beaufort-Wes is die dam kurkdroog.

TUINROETE NUUS – Wat reënval betref is George in 2010 slegter daaraan toe as in 2009, maar te danke aan die Eden- en George-munisipaliteite se proaktiewe optrede, is die watersituasie in die stad veel meer rooskleurig as verlede jaar.
Die rioolsuiweringsaanleg verskaf daagliks 10Ml water en die damvlak staan op ‘n gesonde 50%.

George word reeds vir vyf maande as ‘n groen dorp geklassifiseer wat beteken dat die Tuinroetedam vir ses maande plus water kan verskaf al sou dit nie ‘n druppel reën nie.
En dis ‘n goeie ding, want geen noemenswaardige reënbuie word vir die volgende drie maande voorspel nie, tradisioneel ons natste tyd.
Daar sal egter na verwagting eersdaags ‘n 10% verslapping in plaaslike waterbeperkings wees en mense sal weer hulle tuine met gieters kan natmaak.

Hoewel die situasie in George onder beheer is, lyk die watersekerheid vir die res van die Eden-streek beroerd.
Ten spyte van die goeie reën in Junie en Julie het die vloei van al die riviere in die streek drasties gedaal. As gevolg van die droogte is afloop ook minder, omdat die droë grond water vinnig opslurp.

In Mosselbaai word daar kliphard gespook om die ontsoutingsaanleg teen Februarie te voltooi en in Oudtshoorn is streng waterbeperkings en ‘n 50% tariefverhoging aangekondig.
In Beaufort-Wes is die dam kurkdroog en in Hessequa is die boorgatwater brak.

Die Le Grangedam in Kannaland se damwal is onstabiel en kan sodoende nooit genoeg opgaar nie.
Eden-rampbestuurder Gerhard Otto het verlede Vrydag ’n dringende vergadering met al die rolspelers in Ladismith bygewoon om oplossings vir die probleem te soek.

Otto sê die dorp is ekonomies erg afhanklik van die suiwelreus Parmalat, wat sy aanleg juis in die dorp gevestig het omdat hy verseker van water sou wees. Verstommend genoeg gebruik die mense steeds leiwater.
Volgens Otto laat die departement van waterwese tans vir Mosselbaai, George, Knysna, Bitou, Hessequa en Beaufort-Wes toe om slegs 60% van hul gerigistreerde water te gebruik.

“Hierdie beperkings gaan nou ook na Oudtshoorn en Kannaland uitgebrei word.
“In Mosselbaai word water van die Hartbeeskuildam vir verbruik gepomp, maar weens die klein uitlaat is die hoeveelheid maar beperk.”

Otto sê anders as Knysna en Mosselbaai kan Oudtshoorn en die ander binnelandse dorpe nie staatmaak op ontsoutingsaanlegte nie en sal daar baie kretief gedink moet word oor oplossings.
“Die boere in die Suid-Kaap kry baie swaar, maar die boere in die Wolwedansdam se opvangsgebied gee hulle volle samewerking. Sommige boere het selfs hulle eie meters ingesit het om te bewys hulle onttrek nie meer water as wat hulle mag nie.”

R50 miljoen is deur die rampfonds aangevra om boere in die Suid-Kaap van veevoer te voorsien en Otto is hoopvol dat die bedrag goedgekeur sal word.

Volgens gerugte is daar ook vir Mosselbaai ‘n taamlike groot rampfonds-meevallertjie op pad en as daar gekyk word na die weerpatrone van 2006 en 2007 wat nou weer kop uitsteek, is ‘n vloedjie of twee dalk ook in die lug.

Artikel: Ilse Schoonraad

Mossel Bay - progress made with borehole project

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Oct 072010

Good progress is being made with the borehole project to augment the Mossel Bay Municipality’s water supply. The yield to date is three million litres of water a day.

Phase one of the project commenced in May 2010 and entailed the drilling of seventeen boreholes. A second phase, which involves the drilling of 21 boreholes at this stage, has commenced. It is expected to be completed towards the end of November 2010.

Two of the boreholes, one with a recommended yield of 11 litres per second at Kleinbos near Friemersheim, and the second, with a recommended yield of 4 litres per second at the Dana Bay reservoir, have already been equipped and tied into the municipal water supply system.

Two more boreholes, another at Kleinbos, with a recommended yield of 6 litres per second, and the other, at the Barnyard, with a recommended yield of 10 litres per second are due to be commissioned soon.

PetroSA, which, together with the Municipality, is a major user of water from the Wolwedans Dam, contributed R10 million to the cost of the borehole programme. The estimated total cost is R12 million.

Water has been struck in a fifth borehole at Dana Bay. It had a blow yield of 10 litres per second but the water is brackish and may be of limited use.

The borehole project is one of several projects which the Municipality launched to ensure that Mossel Bay has enough water should its main source of water, the Wolwedans Dam, run empty. The dam was 15,7 per cent full at the beginning of the week and is expected to run empty within the next few months if it does not rain enough before then.

The other projects include the waste water reclamation project at Hartenbos that was commissioned at the end of June 2010 to supply five million litres of water a day to PetroSA’s synthetic fuels plant in exchange for an equal share from the company’s quota from the dam.

Another is the seawater desalination project, which is designed to produce 15 million litres of water a day, and is scheduled to be completed in February 2011. The Municipality will be entitled to 10 million litres of its daily production. PetroSA will be entitled to the rest as the company is a co-funder of the project.

The water from the Hartebeeskuil Dam is also brackish but can be purified to an acceptable quality at the Municipality’s water treatment works at Little Brak River. The project will be completed this week and will initially supply approximately three million litres of water a day. The water shortage has justified the cost of pumping water from this dam into the municipal water supply system.

Source – Mossel Bay Municipality

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South Africa's solution to the drought.

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Sep 212010

A typical Rainwater Harvesting system, installed by Water Rhapsody.

Rainwater Harvesting is fast becoming a necessity to survival in some parts of South Africa. It’s the best way of going green and being kind to the environment. The Garden Route is currently going through the worst drought in 153 years, with heavy water restrictions imposed in Mosselbay.

Today it was confirmed that Beaufort West is experiencing its worst drought in over 100 years. Water levels of the Gamka dam reached an all-time low of minus nine percent last week. The town now rely on borehole water.

South Africa’s dams can no longer supply the volume of water required by ever growing population. There is not a single river left in the Western Cape that can be dammed anymore. We simply have no other options.

Water Conservation including Rainwater Harvesting and Greywater re-use, is the only long term sustainable solution to South Africa’s water crises. Continue reading »

MOSSEL BAY ACHIEVES 60 PER CENT SAVING IN WATER CONSUMPTION

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Sep 142010

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Water consumption in Mossel Bay, Garden Route, South Africa has dropped to its lowest level over the past three years in August 2010 when it averaged 12,75 million litres a day for the month compared to 31,9 million litres a day in August 2009 and 25,4 million litres a day in August 2008. The saving compared to last year is 60 per cent.

The situation, however, remains very serious and the level of the Wolwedans Dam stood at 16,8 per cent on Wednesday, 8 September 2010. Continue reading »

Mossel Bay asked to pray for rain as water situation grows bleaker

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Aug 232010

MOSSEL Bay’s water situation is “becoming bleaker by the day” and the municipality has called on residents to pray for rain every Wednesday at noon.

The Wolwedans Dam, the town’s main supply of drinkable water, dropped to 18,5% this week and is set to run out of water by January if there is no rain before then. If the dam level dropped to 10% or less, the Water Affairs Department said, only the municipality would be able to extract water. PetroSA’s gas-to-liquids refinery also extracts from the dam. Continue reading »

Checking for leaks in taps, pipes and dishwasher hoses is an easy way to reduce water wastage.
Remember, one leaking tap can waste more than 2,000 lt a month.
There’s no need to leave the tap running while you brush your teeth. Simply wet your toothbrush before you begin and use a glass of water to rinse your mouth.
The most water efficient methods for cooking vegetables are microwaving, steaming or using a pressure cooker. You can also cut down on water loss by using tight lids on pots and simmering instead of boiling rapidly.
Installing water efficient taps or tap aerators is a great, inexpensive way to cut your water usage without you even noticing.
Put the plug in the sink when washing your hands instead of holding them under running water.
Thaw frozen foods before you need them or use the microwave instead of placing them under running water.
Prevent taps from leaking by turning taps off lightly and replace washers as soon as they begin to leak.
Automatic dishwashers can use up to 40 lt of water per load. By using a dishwasher with at least a 3 star/AAA rating, you can get this figure down to 18 lt per load and still get the kind of sparkling clean dishes you’re used to.
Wait until you have a full load in your dishwasher before using it. This saves water and energy, and reduces the amount of detergent entering the sewerage system.
Keep a container of water in the fridge so that you won’t need to run the water down the sink until it’s cool enough to drink.
Washing fruit and vegetables in a half-filled sink instead of under running water is a great way to cut back on water wastage.
Rinsing your dishes in a plugged sink rather than under a running tap saves water and is just as easy and effective.
Use a sink strainer.
Try to use phosphate-free, eco-friendly detergents and cleaning products. There’s a great range to choose from these days and they’re much better for our environment.
Remember to regularly clean the lint filter on your washing machine.
Most washing machines have a load adjustment button or dial, so try to set this to match the amount of washing you’re doing. If your machine doesn’t have a load adjustment function, try to wait until you have enough washing for a full load.
Installing one of the latest 3 star/AAA rating showerheads can give you a great shower and save you around 10 lt of water a minute. They also save you energy costs, as you’ll use less hot water.
To rinse your razor, run a little water into a plugged sink. Rinsing your razor under a running tap wastes lots of water.
Electric or fuel powered leaf blowers work more efficiently than hosing down paths and driveways.
Pool covers reduce the amount of water you need to keep your pool full and running efficiently.

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Dam Levels Western Cape - 14 Feb 2011

Western Cape Province State of Dams on 2011-02-14

Kommer in Eden oor damme wat sak

Mossel Bay - progress made with borehole project

South Africa's solution to the drought.

MOSSEL BAY ACHIEVES 60 PER CENT SAVING IN WATER CONSUMPTION

Check out our website for water conservation systems, water tanks etc.

Mossel Bay asked to pray for rain as water situation grows bleaker

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Dam Levels Western Cape - 14 Feb 2011

Western Cape Province State of Dams on 2011-02-14

Kommer in Eden oor damme wat sak

Mossel Bay - progress made with borehole project

South Africa's solution to the drought.

MOSSEL BAY ACHIEVES 60 PER CENT SAVING IN WATER CONSUMPTION

Check out our website for water conservation systems, water tanks etc.

Mossel Bay asked to pray for rain as water situation grows bleaker

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