Good rainfall over the weekend from the Garden Route to Gqeberha should be good for dams

27 October 2025
By Staff Writer

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The Garden Route and south coast from George in the Western Cape to at least Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape received good rainfall this past weekend with 78mm being reported in some areas.

The area received way more rainfall than expected, based on forecast data, and this should help the level in the Garden Route Dam in particular which was at 60.0% last week.

UPDATE: The good rains over the weekend in the George region had almost no impact in the rate of drop in the Garden Route Dam level over the last week.

Reports of rainfall this weekend

Lake Pleasant/Groenvlei – 78mm
Denneoord, George – 40mm
Hoekwil – over 40mm
Sedgefield – 40mm
Knysna – 38mm
Walmer, Gqeberha – 33mm
Cotswold, Gqeberha – over 20mm

Most provinces in the country have overall dam levels well above last year, but the Western Cape total was at around 11% less than at the same time last year, although a fair amount of water has been released from the Clanwilliam Dam on the west coast in order to do construction work on the wall.

Dam levels last week

Gauteng Total – 100.6%
Free State Total – 96.9%
KwaZulu-Natal Total – 93.5%
Mpumalanga Total – 93.1%
Northern Cape Total – 90.1%
North West Total – 89.7%
Western Cape Total – 82.2%
Limpopo Total – 81.2%
Eastern Cape Total – 77.5%

Overall dam levels in North West are at 30% more than at the same time last year, with the Free State at 20% more and Gauteng at 14% more. The Eastern Cape dams were at the same level as last year before the rains this weekend.

See myDorpie.com for weekly dam level updates.

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