George Municipality on Thursday confirmed that the
raising of the Garden Route dam spillway and wall was on track for completion
by March next year.
The project started in May and the municipality
reported that concrete for the first two sections of the spillway footing had
been placed.
“The raising of the dam wall was progressing
steadily with about 10 000 m3 of suitable fill material extracted from the dam
basin on the MTO Forestry/ Nelson Mandela University side of the dam having
been placed.
The contractor should reach the final embankment
wall height within the next two weeks, after which the ‘rip-rap’ layer will be
placed.
“The final curtain grouting operation will start
two weeks after the wall footings have been cast.
Most of the wall footing ground anchors have been grouted in, with only the stilling basin anchors to be placed after completion of the wall footings. “About 54 t of reinforcement will be used in the spillway footings alone,” the municipality stated. https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/george-municipality-progresses-with-garden-route-dam-wall-raise-2019-09-13
