The Daan Viljoen Dam ( English Daan Viljoen Dam ) is a dam in Namibia , around three kilometers west of Gobabis . In terms of storage volume (0.429 million cubic meters), it is the smallest of the reservoirs operated by the Namibia Water Corporation in the country. The dam is 6.6 meters high and 175 meters wide, it was built in 1957 and raised in 1958. It belongs to the Eastern Area Dams.
Like the Daan Viljoen wildlife sanctuary west of Windhoek , the dam was named after the state administrator Daniel du Plessis Viljoen (1892–1972). It dams the Black Nossob and, like its larger sister dam Tilda Viljoen, serves to supply Gobabis with water. The Daan-Viljoen dam is a so-called “mud dam” for the Tilda-Viljoen reservoir. Water from this reservoir is pumped into an open channel and directed into the Tilda-Viljoen reservoir, which has a higher capacity.
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