{"id":61984,"date":"2017-01-16T08:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T06:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=61984"},"modified":"2017-01-16T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T10:00:30","slug":"damvlak-begin-weer-daal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/16\/damvlak-begin-weer-daal\/","title":{"rendered":"Damvlak begin weer daal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Die dam het vanoggend op 48.13% gestaan en daar is geen styging tans te bespeur nie. Oor die naweek het dit 22 mm by die dam gere\u00ebn.<\/p>\n<p>Die Witbankdam staan tans op 91% en vanoggend sal \u2019n toetssluis op 300mm oopgemaak word.<\/p>\n<p>Mnr. Neels Struwig (damopsigter) het ges\u00ea dat riemtelegramme onwaar is wat versprei dat keerdamme van plase tussen ons opvanggebied (Hendrina) en Middelburg die rede is waarom Middelburgdam nie styg nie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie baie re\u00ebn op Ermelo en Bethal het niks met ons uit te waai nie! Al daardie water gaan Witbankdam toe. Ons kry nie water nie, want dit re\u00ebn nie op Hendrina nie. Dit is ons enigste opvanggebied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hy het ook gemeld dat niemand die rivier mag opblok nie en dat indien daar wel \u2019n keerdam is, daar \u2019n oorloop in die rivier moet wees.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Alhoewel dit die vorige naweek 42 mm by die Middelburgdam en 45 mm op Hendrina gere\u00ebn het, het dit g\u00e9\u00e9n verskil aan die dam gemaak nie. \u201cDit was net ligte re\u00ebn. Ons het \u2019n storm in die opvanggebied nodig om die rivier weer aan die gang te kry!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mnr. Gawie Steyn, inwoner van Hendrina, het bevestig dat dit net \u2019n katspoegie op Hendrina gere\u00ebn het oor die naweek. Daar is net 7 mm op di\u00e9 dorp gemeet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Die gemeenskap word gevra om steeds streng by die waterbeperkings te hou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Middelburgdamvlak is steeds onder 50%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":61152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61984","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\/61984","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}