Heavy rainfall visited the Eastern Cape on Friday, with figures up until 8am Friday showing some areas receiving 73.6mm of rain.
Butterworth’s Xilinxa Dam went from almost empty to 20.1% full.
The East London area received a helpful 31.2mm of rain, bringing March’s mid-month total to 83.2mm. This is already 7.2mm more than the whole of February and 3.7 times more than in January. Cape St Francis topped the charts with 73.6mm of rain yesterday – 49.6mm more than the area received in January and February combined.
Graaff-Reinet received no rainfall at all.
Other ares that had decent rain are: Mthatha at 22.6mm, Grahamstown at 14.6mm and Bhisho and King William’s Town at 12.2mm.
A dam level report released by the Department of Water and Sanitation this week looked positive.
Sputnik Ratau, departmental spokesman, said: “The Amathole System is serving major dams supplying Buffalo City Metro, and the Xilinxa Dam, which supplies Butterworth. This improvement helped the Xilinxa Dam to recover from 9.4% last week to 20.1% this week.”
But the Algoa system supplying Nelson Mandela Bay experienced a 0.7% decrease this week, to 25%.
Rains up levels of some EC dams
Butterworth’s Xilinxa Dam went from almost empty to 20.1% full.
The East London area received a helpful 31.2mm of rain, bringing March’s mid-month total to 83.2mm. This is already 7.2mm more than the whole of February and 3.7 times more than in January. Cape St Francis topped the charts with 73.6mm of rain yesterday – 49.6mm more than the area received in January and February combined.
Graaff-Reinet received no rainfall at all.
Other ares that had decent rain are: Mthatha at 22.6mm, Grahamstown at 14.6mm and Bhisho and King William’s Town at 12.2mm.
A dam level report released by the Department of Water and Sanitation this week looked positive.
Sputnik Ratau, departmental spokesman, said: “The Amathole System is serving major dams supplying Buffalo City Metro, and the Xilinxa Dam, which supplies Butterworth. This improvement helped the Xilinxa Dam to recover from 9.4% last week to 20.1% this week.”
But the Algoa system supplying Nelson Mandela Bay experienced a 0.7% decrease this week, to 25%.
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