{"id":19980,"date":"2014-10-16T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/19980\/pienaardam-die-leegste-ooit\/"},"modified":"2014-10-16T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:15:41","slug":"pienaardam-die-leegste-ooit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/16\/pienaardam-die-leegste-ooit\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Pienaardam die leegste ooit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volgens Pienaardam se eienaar, mnr. Gerrie Gerrits, is die dam op een van sy laagste vlakke ooit en herinner die situasie aan verlede jaar, toe baie streng waterbeperkings opgel\u00ea is.<\/p>\n<p>Daar is Dinsdag gepoog om water vanuit Middelburgdam na Pienaardam te pomp, maar daar was &#8216;n lekkasie en die krane is toegedraai.<\/p>\n<p>Die lekkasie is dadelik deur die munisipaliteit herstel, maar in stede van om water weer na die dam te pomp, is die reservoir neffens Columbus volgetap, en maak die munisipaliteit nou staat op gravitasie vanaf die reservoir na Pienaardam wat die week stelselmatig volgetap sal word.<\/p>\n<p>Die pyplyn is in staat om 36 megaliter water na die reservoir te pomp.<\/p>\n<p>Die pyplyn van Witbankdam af, is ingespan om water direk na die waterwerke in Middelburg te tap, om te verhoed dat die dorp ook watertekorte soos Hendrina sou deurmaak.<\/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\/PAMsEb0_Zcc' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Mnr. Rudolf Bouwer s\u00ea dat groot probleme op Hendrina ervaar is en dat di\u00e9 area se reservoir Sondag volgetap is.<\/p>\n<p>Die tekorte op Hendrina was as gevolg van &#8216;n breek op die hoofwaterlyn vanaf Optimum wat gesuiwerde water aan die dorp lewer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ons het so bietjie probleme ervaar, maar dinge is op dreef,&#8221; s\u00ea mnr. Bouwer.<\/p>\n<p>Almal sit nou hande en vryf vir &#8216;n goeie re\u00ebnbui, nadat daar wel &#8216;n paar druppels op Paul Krugerdag geval het.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pienaardam is weer kommerwekkend leeg en pogings om water vanuit Middelburgdam na daar te pomp, was verlede week onsuksesvol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":19981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19980","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}