{"id":1265,"date":"2026-06-18T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/?page_id=1265"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:06:59","slug":"dam-status-and-total-storage-capacity-in-the-upper-integrated-vaal-river-system","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/dam-status-and-total-storage-capacity-in-the-upper-integrated-vaal-river-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Dam status and total storage capacity in the upper Integrated Vaal River system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1265\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1265-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1265-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1265-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-1265-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dam Levels &amp; Total Storage Capacity<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"v1isSelectedEnd\" style=\"text-align: center;\">View the latest\u00a0<b>Dam Status and Total Storage Capacity (TSC)<\/b>\u00a0for the Upper Integrated Vaal River System.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This information provides valuable insight into the overall health of our water supply system and helps explain the Department of Water and Sanitation's decisions to open or close dam sluice gates during periods of heavy rainfall, flood management or drought - because the dams operate as one integrated system, conditions at one dam influence the operation of others, making this a valuable resource for understanding the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1265-0-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-1265-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1265-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1265-1-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-1265-1-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-button panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-button so-widget-sow-button-flat-66466acb9e12-1265\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"ow-button-base ow-button-align-center\"\n>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/reservoir.org.za\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"sowb-button ow-icon-placement-left ow-button-hover\" \t>\n\t\t<span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tView report here\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1265-1-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dam Levels &amp; Total Storage Capacity View the latest\u00a0Dam Status and Total Storage Capacity (TSC)\u00a0for the Upper Integrated Vaal River System. This information provides valuable insight into the overall health of our water supply system and helps explain the Department &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/dam-status-and-total-storage-capacity-in-the-upper-integrated-vaal-river-system\/\" aria-label=\"Dam status and total storage capacity in the upper Integrated Vaal River system\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1265\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaalrivercommunity.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}