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Dossier #5343 · GRanD 4145

Vaalkop

🇿🇦South Africa · Elands River · Limpopo Basin · near Rustenburg

Built 1979 · Dam · data quality: Fair

Irrigation
Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
32 m
Reservoir capacity
58.3 MCM
Reservoir area
9.6 km²
Average depth
6 m
Catchment
4,548 km²
Avg discharge
2,023 L/s
Elevation
985 masl
Degree of regulation
91.4 %

Notes

Built 1979

Provenance

Record 5343 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: -25.3104, 27.4729.