Also, the dam levels rose nearly three percentage points from last week’s 21.1%. To stop the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19), a national lockdown is in effect. City officials have, however, warned that if load shedding in the country goes beyond Stage 1, Cape Town may have to have black-outs in certain parts of the city just like in other areas of South Africa. Completed in 1921 and renovated in 1989, the Steenbras Dams has a total capacity of about 33 517 000 m 3 and a wall height of 28 m, and covers an area of 380 ha. Steenbras Dam – Upper, Somerset West, Western Cape.
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Cape Town dams: Water levels for 3 September 2018 Source: capetown.gov.za. The City of Cape Town’s Water Dashboard shows that as of 28 May the dam levels are at 24% versus 19.8% in the same week in 2017.
The Steenbras Dams is situated on the slopes of the Hottentots Holland Mountains above Gordons Bay, on the Steenbras River, which has a low sediment load and provides high-quality water.
In the last couple of weeks the amount of water in the dams supplying Cape Town has overtaken the 2017 levels. The Steenbras Dam is an earth-fill type dam located in the Hottentots-Holland mountains, above Gordons Bay, near Cape Town in South Africa. Continued good rainfall in the Western Cape has seen dam levels across the province reach their highest levels in four years, with a few exceptions.
For more information visit our provincial coronavirus (Covid-19) website. Both the Berg River Dam and Wemmershoek Dam are above 80% full, while the Steenbras Upper Dam is at 101.4%. As of 3 July 2018, dam levels are officially at 50.3%. DWS photo) Latest report (updated 11h September 2017) on the main dams serving Cape Town City and nearby Boland/Overberg towns This was a good week. The area is often referred to as ‘the heart of the fynbos.’ With more than 1 600 plant species it boasts the greatest floral diversity per unit area than anywhere else in the world.
The levels of these dams are recorded and published in weekly reports by the Department of Water and Sanitation. Theewaterskloof Dam; Wemmershoek Dam; Steenbras Dams (Upper and lower) Voëlvlei Dam; Berg River Dam; These six major dams provide 99.6% of the combined storage capacity, and 8 minor dams the remaining 0.4%.
Read more about the lockdown. 29 likes. The Mother City could be the sole place in the country to be spared from Stage 1 load shedding thanks to the Steenbras hydro-power dam. Sturdy net inflows resulted in combined water stored rising by 18.5 M.cuM (2.1% of capacity) vs 7.5 M.cuM (0.8% capacity) during the prior week.Total stored water rose to 36.8% of full capacity (vs 34.7%). Steenbras Upper dams. The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a period of severe water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town.While dam water levels had been declining since 2015, the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 15 and 30 per cent of total dam capacity. (Steenbras Dam, overflows. The Steenbras Nature Reserve forms part of the greater Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve.