{"id":107766,"date":"2020-01-14T13:59:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T11:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=107766"},"modified":"2020-01-14T15:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T13:26:50","slug":"middelburg-dam-sluices-will-opened-dam-level-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/01\/14\/middelburg-dam-sluices-will-opened-dam-level-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Middelburg dam sluices will be opened as dam level increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr David Nonyana, overseer at Middelburg Dam has announced that a dam level reading of 96.2% was measured and that the level keeps rising with a strong intake.<br \/>\nThe sluice gates will be opened today (Tuesday) at 18:00 and residents are warned to avoid the banks of the Klein Olifants River as water levels are expected to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Middelburg has experienced a healthy level of rainfall throughout the week resulting in certain areas experiencing mild flooding.<\/p>\n<p>A video was circulated of the Amora Bird Park in Gholfsig where water flushed through the park during Monday&#8217;s rainfall.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RmoFqP43KCc' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Middelburg Dam&#8217;s sluice gates will be opened yet again, after the water level was lowered during a three day long purge of the dam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":106564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[22725,22726,10010,22724,12898,22694,22727,10333],"class_list":["post-107766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-amora-bird-park-nearly-washes-away","tag-amora-voelpark-verspoel","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-dam-sluice-gates-opened","tag-middelburg-news","tag-middelburg-rainfall","tag-sluice-gates-at-middelburg-dam-will-be-opened","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["amora bird park nearly washes away","amora voelpark verspoel","local news","middelburg dam sluice gates opened","middelburg news","middelburg rainfall","sluice gates at middelburg dam will be opened","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}