There have been a few comments on other posts that the farmers have been holding back water in their private dams that would have made its way to cape towns steenbras dam, had they not dammed it in the first place. This is untrue. The farmers' dam (Eikenhof) from where the water is being donated is not in the Steenbras catchment area. It is in the Palmiet catchment area and usually ends up in the Koggelberg Dam, to supply Keinmond area,not in the Steenbrass River or Steenbras Dam that supplies Cape Town. It would never have made its way to the Steenbras Dam.
The water the farmers are donating is their agricultural allocation that they are allowed to withold from the Kogelberg Dam for their use, from the Palmiet River. Nothing to do with the City of Cape Ttown's water from the Steenbras River or Steenbras Dam. The Palmiet River and Steenbras Rivers are completely different. The farmers dam is NOT upsteam from the Streenbras Dam. This donated water is now being pumped backwards into the Steenbras Dam, via Rockview Dam but that is not usually the case. So this really is water that Cape Town would not have seen.
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