Sebakwe Dam is a dam in the

Midlands Province Midlands is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of and a population of 1,811,905 (2022). It is home to various peoples. Located at a central point in the country, it contains speakers of Shona, Ndebele, Tswana, Sotho and Chewa, as well as ...

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. It was built in 1957 and owned by the Zimbabwe government. It is across Sebakwe River in the Sanyati Catchment Area. It has a full capacity of 266 megalitres which makes it one of the largest inland dams of

. It is 8 kilometres long and its maximum width is 2.5 kilometres; The surface area is 2320 hectares; Its wall is 47 m high and 3 km long.

Background

It was built as a small dam in 1957 and was raised 1986. In 1957 Sebakwe Dam was the second largest dam in

Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia was a self-governing British Crown colony in Southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally known as South ...

. Its height then was 154 feet high (47 meters). covering an area of 9 square miles (2320 ha) with a capacity of 35 billion imperial gallons.

Operations

It supplies water to

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and Redcliff, and for irrigation.

References

{{Dams and Reservoirs Dams in Zimbabwe Dams completed in 1957 1957 establishments in Southern Rhodesia

Background

Operations

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