Intake Tower Water Transfer
The intake tower is located approximately 18 km north of Katse Dam and has been designed to accommodate 70 m³/s which was the maximum transfer originally envisaged for full implementation of the LHWP. The intake tower is 23m in diameter and 98m high to accommodate the large range in reservoir storage elevation as well as to facilitate the draw-off at four distinct lake levels. This will enable the quality of the transferred water to be controlled at all times. Due to the position and design of the intake tower, there is a certain volume of water in the reservoir that cannot be accessed via the transfer tunnels. This dead storage is approximately 430 million m³, with the result that the effective live storage behind Katse Dam is reduced from the total storage capacity of 1 950 million m³ to 1 520 million m³.
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