Scores of residents have evacuated their homes following evacuation warnings from authorities. The Water and Sanitation Department opened more sluice gates last Friday to maintain the dam’s ...

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Since last month, sluice gates have been gradually opened at several dams, including Vaal and Bloemhof, to release excess water. FILE: The Department of Water and Sanitation opened a sluice gate ...

Hundreds of people downstream along the Vaal riverbanks were evacuated as a result, and many are still displaced. Bloemhof residents will have to wait for water leaving the Vaal Dam catchment area ...

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After closing two sluice gates at the Vaal dam on Thursday, another two will be closed on Friday. This will leave four sluice gates open as the water level of, and inflow into, the dam decreases ...

The Vaal dam water level has decreased from 119.18% on Tuesday to 116.67% by Wednesday morning, as inflows decrease from 1 338.80 m³/s to 1 115.4 m³/s. This is a decrease from the 1 587.34 m3/s ...

Floods in areas near the Vaal River have severely affected about 130 households in the Lekwa-Teemane Local Municipality in Bloemhof in the North West. Last Friday, ten sluice gates of the Vaal Dam and ...

Flooding in areas close to the Vaal River has negatively impacted about 130 households. Seven sluice gates at the Bloemhof Dam and 10 at the Vaal Dam were opened last Friday, 25 April. However ...

About 130 households have been affected by the floods near the Vaal River in the North West The river has been overflowing after reaching over 100% capacity, and despite ten sluice gates being opened, ...