Hytec Engineering Supplies Cylinder To Berg River Dam

Hytec Engineering recently won a contract valued at R1, 2-million for the supply of a large cylinder for use in the Berg River Dam project.

The cylinder, which was supplied through Hytec Johannesburg who also supplied the power packs, will be used for the Berg River Dam emergency gate closure intake tower. Water from the Berg River Dam will be extracted through the 63m high tower. The water extracted from the dam will then be directed to Cape Town. While the cylinder has not yet been installed or commissioned, Hytec looks at this unique delivery as a big achievement.

The Berg River Dam is a concrete-faced rockfill dam about 900m long and 60m high, with an embankment volume of 4-million m3 and a gross storage capacity of 130-million m3. It has side channel spillways, 40m long with a discharge chute, deflector bucket and plunge pool with a maximum discharge capacity of 740 cubic metres per second. The dam also showcases two road bridges that include one across the spillway and another providing access to the intake tower. Situated in the Western Cape, it hosts the 14-year-old Berg Water Project.