This week sees the third successive decrease in dam levels with the average dam level dropping by 0.2%.
The Kouga Dam levels increased by 0.2% and the Loerie by 0.4% on last week.
Major Storage Dam levels supplying the Metro (as at 14 March 2011), Capacity – Volume of water:
- Kouga: 40,1% – 51 540 Ml
- Churchill: 35,3% – 12 554 Ml
- Impofu: 22,1% – 21 652 Ml
- Loerie: 41,7% – 1 636 Ml
- Groendal: 68,4% – 7 970 Ml
- Average all: 34,4 % of total combined capacity of total combined capacity (95 352 Ml divided by 277 401).
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Cannot believe the Kouga level is so low. We were there on Saturday, and you could not cross the Gamtoos where it cross the road soon after the turnoff to the dam. Ehere the Kouga and Groor rivers join, there was a lot of water, so I cannot understand how come the water is still so low?