Vaal Dam levels

[skeptic_SA]

/requests thread title change

 

[Solarion]

Give that kid a Monster drink. Awesome invention!

 

[noxibox]

American High School Student Discovers Cheaper Way of Turning Salt Water into Drinkable Water

We need a technological breakthrough wrt desalination and this student might have it.

More here

I'd be curious to know how his idea is different to Improved polymer membranes may simplify desalination, reduce cost or Synthetic polymer composite membrane for the desalination of saline water or Drinking Water from the Sea: Polymeric Membranes for Desalination.

Hope this kid makes the billions he deserves for his idea.

Well I hope he has invented something rather than ending up as one of those people who makes a fortune off something built out of other people's ideas.

 

[Necropolis]

Thu 23 Feb. Vaal Dam Level 20.95m. Full 81.64%. Inflow 2334.3m3/s. Discharge 14.17m3/s. River Valves Open 1X100% 1X50%. Gates Open 0

Wow.

 

[sand_man]

Just insane!!

 

[Sinbad]

I think I'm gonna go look at open sluice gates this weekend

 

[Ho3n3r]

Flow rate is 2 million litres per second. That sounds insane... Really underestimated the amount of rain that fell in the catchment area.

 

[rph72]

So the dam should reach 100% by Saturday/Sunday?

 

[Drifter]

Inflow 2334.3m3/s. Fork me, thats a lot of water.

 

[Drifter]

I think I'm gonna go look at open sluice gates this weekend

Meet you there, let's braai.

 

[RVQ]

Vaal Dam at 81%
Grootdraai Dam at 107%
Sterkfontein Dam at 88%
Bloemhof Dam at 51%

 

[Sinbad]

So the dam should reach 100% by Saturday/Sunday?

Yup

 

[Unhappy1]

So the dam should reach 100% by Saturday/Sunday?

Not without more rain, it could well be 90% by then though.

Yup

More rain coming?

 

[rph72]

Yup

Not without more rain, it could well be 90% by then though.

The Optimist and The Pessimist.

 

[Ho3n3r]

Not without more rain, it could well be 90% by then though.



More rain coming?

The inflow will continue into next week.

 

[Unhappy1]

The inflow will continue into next week.

From what i understand, alot of that inflow is from dams above. Once they aren't over filled it will tail off quickly.

 

[WaxLyrical]

Bloemhof Dam at 51%

Kind of ironic. Heard the main river passing through Wolmaransstad burst it's banks. Massive damage.

Bloemhof is only 50km away.

 

[Necropolis]

Inflow 2334.3m3/s. Fork me, thats a lot of water.

Yeah - I cannot even comprehend how much water that is.

Does anyone know what equipment / methods they use to calculate that inflow rate?

Is that the rate at a given point in time or an average?

 

[Sinbad]

Not without more rain, it could well be 90% by then though.



More rain coming?

The catchment areas take days to drain. The inflow will tail off over a couple of days, but there's enough water coming to fill the dam.
It'll be over 90 by end of day today I reckon.

 

[Unhappy1]

The catchment areas take days to drain. The inflow will tail off over a couple of days, but there's enough water coming to fill the dam.
It'll be over 90 by end of day today I reckon.

I suppose we will find out soon, a full Vaal will be great.