Flavour of the month - Aug 2012: Sable Dam & S51 Sable Dam Road

[Lisbeth]

Lovely pics, Flutty, especially the first two, beautyful light

[Richprins]

History of Sable Dam

Sable Dam is one of the most scenic and largest public dams located in the Northern Business Unit. It can be found approximately 8 km from the Phalaborwa Gate and 1 km from the H-9 tar road en-route to Letaba.

The Dam was built as part of the Kruger National Park Tar Road project during the 1970’s. The Dam supplied water to the construction teams who were working on the tar road between Phalaborwa Gate and Letaba Restcamp.

Construction of the dam began on the 5 September 1972 and was finished in the same month. The following is a list of interest factors regarding Sable Dam:

Catchment area: 1 900 hectres
Earth Volume: 32 000 cubic metres
Capacity: 221 mega litres
Depth: 6.4 metres (at maximum)
Length of wall: 392 m


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Hide complex in circle!

[Flutterby]

Interesting.

[Richprins]

Not sure if you can finish a dam in 25 days, but maybe they were that good in those days?

[Alf]

This is what I get on google earth



They don't look as if they could be the same dam

[Richprins]

Will look again...

[Richprins]

Ok!

[Alf]

Thank you

[Richprins]

Looks like the other one is Reënvoêl Dam...now we know!

[Lisbeth]

Well done, Alf