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FIVE SLUICE GATES OPEN AT VAAL DAM

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has opened another sluice gate at the Vaal Dam on 4 January, with five gates now open. This is as part of the continuous monitoring of the high inflows impacting on the Integrated Vaal River System (IVRS) and thus the Vaal dam as one of the 14 dams in the system. The opening of the sluice gates follows consistent heavy rains over the last couple of weeks in the catchments supporting the IVRS and the Orange river. The dam, which supplies most of Gauteng, was at 109.37% on the morning of 5 January 2022.