{"id":109629,"date":"2020-02-12T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T06:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=109629"},"modified":"2020-02-12T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T06:35:05","slug":"middelburg-dam-sluice-gates-will-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/02\/12\/middelburg-dam-sluice-gates-will-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"Middelburg Dam sluice gates will be opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Nonyana, overseer at Middelburg Dam has notified that the sluice gates will be opened at 300 mm this morning from 10:00.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are warned to avoid areas along the Klein Olifants River banks as water levels are expected to rise.<\/p>\n<p>The Middelburg Dam currently stands at 98% full and the Loskop Dam&#8217;s overflow has increased since 11 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite continuous efforts to regulate the water levels at Middelburg Dam, a strong intake will result in the sluice gates being opened once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":106565,"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":[10010,23256,23257,17619,12898,17620,22696,10333],"class_list":["post-109629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-dam-at-98","tag-middelburg-dam-level","tag-middelburg-dam-levels","tag-middelburg-news","tag-mpumalanga-dam-levels","tag-sluice-gates-at-middelburg-dam-opened","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","middelburg dam at 98%","middelburg dam level","middelburg dam levels","middelburg news","mpumalanga dam levels","sluice gates at middelburg dam opened","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109629","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=109629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}