Dossier #404 · GRanD 4184
Vaal
🇿🇦South Africa · Vaal River · Orange Basin · near Deneysville
Built 1938 · Modified · Dam · data quality: Fair
Irrigation ★Water supply
Reservoir outline · simplified
Specifications
- Height
- 63 m
- Reservoir capacity
- 3.2 km³
- Reservoir area
- 287.3 km²
- Average depth
- 11.1 m
- Catchment
- 38,545 km²
- Avg discharge
- 63,925 L/s
- Elevation
- 1,485 masl
- Degree of regulation
- 158.7 %
Notes
Dam was raised in 1985
Built 1938 - Modified 1985
Provenance
Record 404 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -26.8831, 28.1155.