Water Wheel - Mar/Apr 2006

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Orange River Floods I would like to tell you how much I have enjoyed your articles in the January/February 2006 issue of the Water Wheel. Your stories are well-presented and brimming with topical matters of interest. Keep up the good work. Keep it simple. The floods, which the Witwatersrand has recently experienced, will do an enormous amount of good in flushing out the river systems. Loch Vaal on the Barrage Reservoir (53 km of stored water) is so contaminated that from time to time it is declared by Rand Water unsuitable for water contact sports. You are then warned by Rand Water not to put your toe in it! Fortunately Rand Water no longer draws any of its water from Loch Vaal. It supplies its Vereeniging purification plants direct from Vaal Dam via a canal (on the east bank of the river) built about 20 years ago. I thought that your reading public might be interested in information regarding Orange River floods, which I put together in 2001. It is historical, but at the same time relevant.

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