And in the news category of; “News you expected to hear but would be nice to have confirmed”, there is some good news for a Monday especially with all the rain damage over the last few days; All the dams servicing Port Elizabeth are 100% full.
Major Storage Dams supplying the Metro – levels as at 16 July 2012:
- Kouga – 100% (125 910 Ml)
- Churchill – 100% (35 240 Ml)
- Impofu – 100% (105 757 Ml) started overflowing last night and is currently running 30mm over
- Loerie – 100% (3 026 Ml)
- Groendal – 100% (11 640 Ml)
- Total – 100% (281 573 Ml)
Average all: 100% of total combined capacity.
Average daily consumption for July to date = 235 Ml
