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dam-l Skuifraam story again/LS

This is a repeat of what I sent yesterday. I understand that the one I sent
yesterday had sentences cut off; please let me know if this has the same
problem!

Lori


This is from the June 1999 issue of "World Water and Environmental Engineering":

SA Government to move on Cape dam

The South African government is close to appointing advisors for the
ZAR760m ($120m) BOT Skuifraam Dam and water supply scheme near Cape Town.

THe first phase of the project, to be built near Franschoek, needs to be
finished by 2003 while the dam will have to be completed by Sept. 2007 to
ensure water supply to the peninsula.

South Africa's Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) says that
the Skuifraam scheme will boost the yield of the Rivier-sonderend-Berg
river water scheme, releasing irrigation water along the Berg from the new
scheme rather than from the system of tunnels already in place.

Financing is complicated however, as a simple increase in water tariffs to
meet the cost of a scheme only used part of the time is likely to be
opposed. On current predictions, it is unlikely that Cape Town will need
the extra Skuifraam water in wet seasons.

Tenders for the project will not be released until the means of paying for
the BOT scheme is finalized.

The dam will retain a reservoir of 126 million cubic meters of water. The
supplementary scheme will divert water from the Berg River during the South
African winter months into a small off-channel balancing dam through an
8.7km long, 1.5m diameter pipeline tothe still-to-be-built Skuifraam dam
pumping station.

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      Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
        and Editor, World Rivers Review
           International Rivers Network
              1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
                  Tel. (510) 848 1155   Fax (510) 848 1008
                        http://www.irn.org
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      Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
        and Editor, World Rivers Review
           International Rivers Network
              1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
                  Tel. (510) 848 1155   Fax (510) 848 1008
                        http://www.irn.org
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