On Wednesday, the Water and Sanitation Minister, Pemmy Majodina, visited the Vaal Dam to assess the water resource infrastructure amid heavy inflows into the dam due to heavy rainfall. FILE ...

Water levels at the Vaal Dam have continued to rise, and were sitting at nearly 113% of capacity on Tuesday, according to the department of water and sanitation. It has advised people living ...

The increased outflows from the Vaal Dam are expected to reach the Vaal Barrage imminently and the Bloemhof Dam in three to four days, potentially causing the riverbanks to overflow. This ...

eNCA's Slindelo Masikane and Bafedile Moerane spoke with stakeholders about the decision to open the dam sluice gates and the municipal response to the floods.

The Vaal Dam has exceeded its full capacity, currently sitting at 102.14%, prompting water authorities to implement measured releases to maintain safe water levels. As Vaal Dam water levels rise ...

As the water levels of the Vaal dam reach 101.51%, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has reduced the outflow of water from 61.2 cubic metres a second (mᵌ/s) to 40 mᵌ/s as inflows ...

The water level of the Bloemhof dam, located downstream of the Vaal river catchment, is currently at 100.94% and has an additional 16% flood absorption capacity.

The water storage at the Vaal Dam has jumped from 24.3% last week to 50.53%. The Dam has been on a downward spiral for months before this rainfall. The Department of Water and Sanitation had been ...

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and even picnic spots were all affected. However, after much work, and R10 million spent by the Vaal’s hospitality industry, the weed levels had dropped dramatically by September this year.

However, eight of them remain open and the dam's capacity has since dropped from 120 to 113 percent. The opening of the gates posed a major threat to communities on the Vaal River banks who were ...