The Vaal River Barrage Reservoir is a dam on the Vaal River near Vanderbijlpark, border Gauteng and Free State, South Africa.
The Barrage, created by a set of gates across the Vaal River, was built by Rand Water downstream of the Vaal Dam, in 1923. The reservoir is 64 kilometres long and has a total storage capacity of 63 million litres, a surface area of 16,835 square kilometres and has an average depth of 4,5 metres. The rivers – i.e., Suikerbosrand, Klip, & Rietspruit – that feed into the Vaal River Barrage Reservoir flow from industrial and heavily populated areas such as Johannesburg, Vereeniging and Sasolburg. This reservoir was used to supply water to the Witwatersrand but no longer does so because the quality of its water is deteriorating due to pollution. This reservoir, which is managed by Rand Water, is used for many recreational activities, such as boating, skiing, fishing, and swimming, with many holiday resorts found along its banks.[1]
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The Vaal River Barrage Reservoir is a dam on the Vaal River near Vanderbijlpark, border Gauteng and Free State, South Africa. The Barrage, created by...
various government and private entities to drive the Vaal River scheme and the barrage (1914–1924). The Vaal River scheme was an initiative established to manage...
/ -26.18972; 29.21194 Unnamed Island VaalBarrage border Gauteng and Free State, between Vaal Dam and the Barrage 26°45′39″S 27°41′15″E / 26.76083°S...
conditions with resource quality objectives for the Leeu-Taaiboschspruit Industrial Complex situated within the VaalBarrage Catchment: Volume 1". v t e...
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The Vaal Mall is a large shopping centre in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa. It is the largest shopping centre in the region and serves patrons from...
also forms part of the Tugela-Vaal Water Project some of the water pumped to Driekloof Dam might end up flowing to the Vaal Dam and not be available for...
Orange and Vaal rivers. The predatory largemouth bass flourish in several dams on tributaries of the Vaal and in the Barrage below the Vaal dam. Carp are...
established in 1936. Vaalhartz Weir (alternative spelling) is located on the Vaal River approximately 100 km downstream of Bloemhof Dam and 13 km upstream...
bed of the Klip River but by 1914, the Board decided to build a barrage on the Vaal River 64 km to the south of Johannesburg with the Vereeniging Pumping...
Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019. "Vaal Reefs". Minerals Council South Africa. Archived from the original on 26 April...
ancestors of the Tswana-speaking people who came to control the region (from the Vaal River to Botswana) has yet to be dated precisely. Although CE 600 seems to...
of the Free State goldfields (seven major mines simultaneously) and the Vaal Reefs mine. During 1945, the AAC moved into the coal industry by acquiring...
raise the Boer siege of Ladysmith. The battles of Colenso, Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz each resulted in embarrassing British defeats at the hands of Botha's...
diversionary attacks to the east of Spion Kop, and in early February attacked Vaal Krantz with the battalion taking two hills of the ridge, before the position...
proposal was found to be uneconomical and the Rand Water Board chose the Vaal Dam barrage as a better option. During the Second Boer War, the hills around the...
Krause arrested Kock and had him sent to Pretoria. Lord Roberts crossed the Vaal River on 29 May and reached Germiston on 30 May. On that morning his representatives...
setbacks in his attempts to relieve Ladysmith at the battles of Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz. On his fourth attempt, Buller was victorious in the Battle of the...
head of the communications line. A third attempt to cross the Tugela at Vaal Krantz also failed. The Battle of the Tugela Heights was a series of battles...
near Kimberley, where it joined 9th Brigade occupying the south bank of the Vaal River facing General S.P. du Toit's Commando on the opposite side. On 4 April...
regular army, forcing Beyers to go on the run for a month before his death at Vaal River on December 8. The Royal Victorian Aero Club was established at Moorabbin...
rebellion — Boer rebel leader General Christian Frederick Beyers drowned in the Vaal River while trying to escape pursuing forces of the Union of South Africa...
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