The major storage Dams supplying the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan area levels as at 14 November 2011 are:
Dam: Capacity – Volume of water
- Kouga: 97,9% – 123 281 Ml
- Churchill: 96,2% – 33 896
- Impofu: 99,1% – 104 805
- Loerie: 77,5% – 2 345
- Groendal: 97,6% – 11 360
- Average all: 97,9 % of total combined capacity – 275 687 Ml.
The average daily consumption for November to date is 254 Ml per day.
Thanks Stan.
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Alan Straton
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Would be nice if the dams that feeds PE are regularly updated here.
The Municipality does a credible job here: http://www.nelsonmandelabay.gov.za/dam.aspx – thanks for the suggestion, though. At the height of the last crisis the municipality did send regular updates to media for publication.