The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) spokesperson, Wisane Mavasa, says they received notification regarding a ...

The intervention comes after the department was alerted to structural concerns at the privately owned dam, officially ...

Embankment dam breach analysis encompasses the investigation and modelling of failure mechanisms in earthen structures that retain water. Research in this field addresses both the physical and ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has dispatched a team of dam safety engineers to assess and closely monitor ...

My Own Dam, publicly referred to as Senteeko Dam, is registered with the department’s dam safety office as a 26m-high medium ...

Originally built in 1958, the Priest Rapids Dam is a composite structure with a center-channel spillway and powerhouse and a left and right embankment. Through proactive hazard identification modeling ...

Based on their findings, the researchers noted there are practical solutions that could have prevented collapse of the embankment slope investigated in this study. Their recommendations include using ...