The Ntimbale Dam is a dam on the
Tati River
The Tati River is a river in northeast Botswana, a tributary of the Shashe River, which in turn is a tributary of the Limpopo River.
The river flows through Francistown
Francistown is the second largest city in Botswana, with a population of ...
in
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalaha ...
.
It has a capacity of .
Construction
The dam project was assigned to
Knight Piésold by the Botswana Department of Water Affairs.
Knight Piésold undertook the Feasibility study in 1996–97, assisted in the tender process, prepared the detailed design and supervised construction between 2004 and 2009.
The dam is a roller-compacted concrete dam high, with a central ogee spillway.
PPC Cement of South Africa, which has a blending and packing plant in Gaborone, supplied the cement for the project.
The dam complex includes pump stations and a water treatment plant, and supplies water to villages in the
North East District and neighboring parts of the
Central District.
The dam cost an estimated P205 million. While it was being built, a water-transfer scheme costing P280 million was undertaken to connect all of the 51 villages in the North East District.
President
Ian Khama
Seretse Khama Ian Khama (born 27 February 1953) is a Botswana politician and former military officer who was the fourth President of the Republic of Botswana from 1 April 2008 to 1 April 2018. After serving as Commander of the Botswana Defence ...
commissioned the dam at a ceremony in October 2008, saying he hoped it would meet domestic water supply needs for the next twenty years. He cautioned that people should continue to use water carefully and avoid waste.
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