Dossier #5378 · GRanD 4182
Vaal Barrage
🇿🇦South Africa · Vaal River · Orange Basin · near Vanderbijlpark
Built 1914 · Dam · data quality: Poor
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 8 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 56.7 MCM
- Reservoir area
- 1.1 km²
- Average depth
- 51.1 m
- Catchment
- 1,129 km²
- Avg discharge
- 921 L/s
- Elevation
- 1,423 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 195.2 %
Notes
Not sure about capacity
Built 1914
Provenance
Record 5378 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -26.7521, 27.6990.