General Information A Sustainable Utilisation Plan to provide guidelines for water and land use of the dam and its surrounding catchment Client Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) Area 7800 hectares Awards IAIA premium award winner 2008

ground floor bree street studios 17 new church street berg water project, franschhoek cape town western cape, south africa (021) 424 5022 www.cndv.co.za The Berg Water Project comprises three infrastructure components, a dam across the upper Berg River, a supplementary scheme 10kms downstream and pipelines connecting the two. The project will be connected into the pipeline systems of the Western Cape Water System supplying the City of Cape Town. The Berg Water Dam intends to be a world class example of how the use of the land and pristine catchment area surrounding a dam and its water body can promote bio-diversity conservation as its prime objective while also addressing social injustice by making economic opportunities available to previously disadvantaged communities.

ground floor bree street studios 17 new church street berg water project, franschhoek cape town western cape, south africa (021) 424 5022 www.cndv.co.za The project includes a number of environmental “firsts” which includes an outlet system that enables it to more closely emulate the natural flow regime of a river than has been possible with dams either in South Africa or internationally to date; instead of limiting the area to be managed after construction is completed to the immediate perimeter of the dam this has been extended to include the entire upper catchment of the Berg River; and the production of a Sustainable Utilization Plan linked to alien vegetation eradication, erosion control and fire management plans to manage the entire upper catchment in the future.

ground floor bree street studios 17 new church street berg water project, franschhoek cape town western cape, south africa (021) 424 5022 www.cndv.co.za