Dossier #5330 · GRanD 4577
Phalaborwa Barrage
🇿🇦South Africa · Olifants River · Limpopo Basin · near Phalaborwa
Built 1974 · Dam · data quality: Good
Irrigation ★Water supply
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 21 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 5.7 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 1.2 km²
- Average depth
- 4.9 m
- Catchment
- 47,628 km²
- Avg discharge
- 47,338 L/s
- Elevation
- 312 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 0.4 %
Notes
Built 1974
Provenance
Record 5330 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -24.0717, 31.1427.