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WATCH Theewaterskloof Dam Almost 100% Full
This week’s cold front with winter rains has helped push the dam water levels at Theewaterskloof Dam in South Africa to almost 100% full! Donna Hadfield Herbert captured these photos and videos yesterday, Friday 9 July 2021. The dam has a storage capacity of 480 million cubic metres of water. As of yesterday, it was […]
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This week’s cold front with winter rains has helped push the dam water levels at Theewaterskloof Dam in South Africa to almost 100% full! Donna Hadfield Herbert captured these photos and videos yesterday, Friday 9 July 2021.
The dam has a storage capacity of 480 million cubic metres of water. As of yesterday, it was 97.8% full – up almost 20% from just over a week ago – with winds blowing the water over the dam wall.
Earlier in the week (5 July), it had risen rapidly from 79.7% the previous week to 95.8% on Monday.
Donna says: “I took these yesterday morning. It’s not quite 100%… but will be this week ❤️”
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As the main supplier of drinking water to Cape Town, the dam levels are critical. Theewaterskloof Dam became a tourist destination in 2018 when stark photos showed the dam drying up (down to 19.4%), and the City of Cape Town made world headlines as it fast approached ‘Day Zero’, when day taps were due to be turned off.
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Fortunately the heavens opened and disaster was avoided… but it still felt like a miracle when the dam overflowed in September 2020. This time last year the dam was only at 59.7%, according to the City of Cape Town and the National Department of Water and Sanitation.