Avis dam

Avis dam
	Avis dam with a view towards Auasberge
Tributaries:	2 rivers
Drain:	Klein Windhoek Rivier
Larger places on the shore:	Windhoek
	Namibia
Coordinates	22 ° 34 '30 " S , 17 ° 7' 48" E Coordinates: 22 ° 34 '30 " S , 17 ° 7' 48" E
	Data on the structure
Lock type:	dam
Construction time:	? –1933
Power plant output:	no power plant
	Data on the reservoir
Storage space	2.4 million m³

The Avis Dam is a dam in Namibia , on the eastern edge of the Windhoek district of Avis . The dam was completed in 1933. Its reservoir has a capacity of around 2.4 million m³ , making the storage space one of the smallest reservoirs in Namibia.

The Avis Dam is fed by two rivers and drained by the Klein Windhoek Rivier . It is located in a popular local recreation area in the Erosberg Mountains . Originally, the dam was supposed to function as a sustainable drinking water reservoir for the city of Windhoek. Due to its small catchment area , the reservoir could not continuously meet these requirements, although it was unable to supply any water at all for many years due to the weather. Therefore, from 1958 onwards, the role of the municipal water reservoir was increasingly taken over by the newly constructed and larger Goreangab Dam , so that the Avis Dam is now valued primarily as a recreational area.

View from the dried up lake to the dam (2019)

View from the dam into the (2019) dried up lake

Current development

As part of the Windhoek River Walk Project, the City of Windhoek is planning a 20-kilometer hiking trail in the Klein Windhoek Rivier from Goreangab to the Avis Dam. This should include paved running and bike paths as well as other facilities. Expenditure of 150 million Namibian dollars is planned for this.

Individual evidence

↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ http://ag.arizona.edu/oals/ALN/aln56/dupisani.html
↑ Du Pisani PL (2005): Direct reclamation of potable Water at Windhoek's Goreangab reclamation plant (English) accessed on June 22, 2011
^ New urban design for Goreangab Dam. New Era, October 28, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014

[1] Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] ttp://ag.arizona.edu/oals/ALN/aln56/dupisani.html

[3] Du Pisani PL (2005): Direct reclamation of potable Water at Windhoek's Goreangab reclamation plant (English) accessed on June 22, 2011

[4] New urban design for Goreangab Dam. New Era, October 28, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014