Date contructed:

Water uses:

This dam was completed in the late 1970’s to meet the expanding industrial and mining requirements of the Richards Bay area, but provision was also made for large-scale irrigation. Water released from the dam is abstracted by irrigators, either by canal or by direct pumped abstraction from the river.Water for urban, industrial and mining use is abstracted from the Mhlathuze Weir from where, after treatment, it is distributed by Mhlathuze Water. (Ref 1)