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Tugela Vaal Transfer Scheme

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The works are currently being built gradually, and the project was to be fully completed during the 2010s. The transfer of water from the
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Various pumping stations and water reservoirs have been or are to be created or adapted as part of the implementation of this project.
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Kilburn Dam Lake in KwaZulu-Natal, about 500 meters below the Sterkfontein Dam lake level. View from the Oliviershoek Pass.
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was expected to begin in August 2019, but was delayed to December due to technical and safety issues.
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of the Government of South Africa studied the means of increasing the volume of water available in the
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to the Kilburn dam lake, at the foot of the Drakensberg, to be then sent to the Vaal Basin by pumping.
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The first phase of the project, which began in 1970, was commissioned on 8 November 1974.
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South Africa's water governance hydraulic mission (1912–2008) in a WEF-Nexus context
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for agricultural use in particular. A feasibility study using water supply from the
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allows, since 1981, essentially energy storage, and its exploitation by
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The project will thus allow the annual transfer from the
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Index



Drakensberg
Oliviershoek Pass
Tugela basin
KwaZulu-Natal
Vaal basin
Free State
Vaal dam
Woodstock Dam
Kilburn Dam
Driekloof Dam
Sterkfontein Dam
Drakensberg Pumped Storage Scheme
Eskom
pumped storage
Spioenkop Dam
pipeline

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Vaal basin
Tugela basin
Bergville
Tugela River
Sterkfontein Dam
Projects restoring Land and Water
"Sterkfontein Dam, South Africa"
the original
Thukela Water Project – Background
Thukela Water Project – Investigations

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