NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO 138
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 16 APRIL 2010
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO. 8)
138. Mr K A Sinclair (COPE-NC) to ask the Minister of Water and
Environmental Affairs:
Whether her department is planning the development of (a) a dam and
(b) an irrigation scheme in the Doring River close to Calvinia; if
not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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REPLY:
(a) There are no current plans to build a dam on the Doring River
close to Calvinia. Current efforts are concentrating on raising
Clanwilliam Dam on the Olifants River with the proviso that no
further dam developments will take place on the Doring River to
meet the Reserve requirements of the estuary.
(b) With no new dam coming up on the Doring River, my Department is
not investigating any new irrigation developments in the river
system.
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