Development plans for the Garden Route Dam Capacity Increase project are gaining momentum as the George Municipality issued a call for tenders late last week. The tender for the newly designed project was advertised on 7 September and will close on 9th October 2017. The project, which was initiated in 2009, had to be redesigned in favour of a more viable solution. In 2009 the George Municipality applied for Environmental Authorization to raise the Garden Route Dam spillway by up to 3m in height and to install a Fuse Gate System (FGS) at the point of overflow. At the time it was determined, with the hydrology data available then, that this would be the most favourable solution for increasing the dam storage capacity and the authorisation for this activity was granted in March 2012. However, by the time the Water Affairs permit was issued in December 2014 the authorised fuse gate alternative was no longer considered to be the most viable option, following a comprehensive review of the catchment hydrology.
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