Improvements in Mpumalanga’s dam levels continue to be recorded
Buffelskloof Dam is the only dam that recorded a decline from 105.2% to 101%.

The Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS) latest weekly state of reservoirs report on January 20 shows the water levels continue to improve in most of the dams and water management areas in Mpumalanga.
According to the DWS’s report, the average dam levels in the province recorded an increase from 93.1% to 94.9%. The Inkomati-Usuthu WMA increased from 88.6% to 91%.
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Water levels also improved in the three districts. Ehlanzeni increased from 80.4% to 85.4%, Gert Sibande from 97.5% to 97.8%, and Nkangala from 97.6% to 98.9%.
The majority of listed dams in the Lowveld and Ehlanzeni District recorded improvements in water volumes, except for Buffelskloof Dam, which recorded a drop from 105.2% to 101%.
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Dams that recorded improvements include the Blyderivierspoort, increasing from 100.3% to 101%, Driekoppies from 83.5% to 85.4%, Longmere from 92.8% to 98.2%, Klipkopjes from 75% to 84.9%, Witklip from 81.9% to 94%, Primkop from 86.7% to 100%, Kwena from 73.8% to 83.4%, Da Gama from 87.3% to 97.9%, Inyaka from 77.8% to 82.7% and Ohrigstad from 26.9% to 37.1%.
The DWS continues to encourage citizens to use water wisely, given that South Africa is a water-scarce country. It further urged the public to conserve water and make every drop count, and to prevent water losses by reporting leaks and getting them repaired.
@lowvelder Tom van der Meulen, a gyrocopter pilot and resident from Hoedspruit, shared this amazing video of the Blyderivierspoort Dam overflowing on his Facebook page on Tuesday, January 14. He had captured this amazing view at about 16:00 the day before. After the rain Limpopo and Mpumalanga had received, this was the sight that greeted him in his gyrocopter. According to Van der Meulen: “It rained between 20mm and 100mm during Sunday night. Most of the rain was next to the mountains.” Watch the video here: The Blyderivierspoort Dam is situated in Mpumalanga and was opened in 1974. It is an arch-gravity dam 71m in height and 240m in length, holding a total capacity of 54 050 000m³, and it has a surface area of 240ha. The Blyde River Canyon empties into the Blyderivierspoort Dam, near the Swadini Resort, with breathtaking views of the escarpment. The Blyde River is dammed at the mouth of the canyon to create the Blyde Dam near Swadini. The Blyde River flows into the Olifants River, which eventually flows into the Massingir Dam in Mozambique. > Video: Supplied/Tom van der Meulen. #blyderivercanyon #blyderivercanyon #damoverflowing #dam #rain #mpumalanga🇿🇦