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Dossier #5330 · GRanD 4577

Phalaborwa Barrage

🇿🇦South Africa · Olifants River · Limpopo Basin · near Phalaborwa

Built 1974 · Dam · data quality: Good

IrrigationWater 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.