With the opening of a sluice gate at the Grootdraai Dam, large amounts of water is expected to reach the Vaal Dam, with efforts needed to relieve some of the inflow. To manage the rising water levels ...

When Duke Energy opened four floodgates at Cowans Ford Dam last fall, it made headlines. On that September day, water surged ...

When Duke Energy opened four floodgates at Cowans Ford Dam ... the gates must open. Communications Manager Ben Williamson (left) and Jeff Lineberger (right) stand beside the hydraulic turbine ...

The Department and Water and Sanitation opened one sluice gate at the Vaal Dam on Thursday to increase outflows and manage dam water levels. In a statement on Thursday, the department said one ...

The state, following the fiasco, had immediately floated a tender for construction of a new gate for Amthane dam. But the work cannot be taken up until the water levels in the dam dip.

Its final feature, inaugurated in late 2016, is a new ship lift, a hydraulic seesaw that raises and lowers vessels as many as 371 feet to traverse the dam. Archimedes’ notion was simple ...