Name: Loskop
Loskop Dam is situated in the Cultural Heartland of Mpumalanga, South Africa. The 27km Dam forms part of the Mpumalanga Tourism & Parks Agency, and is within the Loskop Dam Nature Reserve.
The history of the Loskop Dam can be traced back to the 1840s when the Voortrekkers settled in theKruis River valley not far from the present dam site.The proposed Hereford Scheme included an improvement of the diversion weir at Kameeldoring, and a41 km-long canal extending as far as the Moses River. After a loan of R70 000 was granted by the Land Bank, work started during 1928 under the supervision of the Department of Irrigation. The various contracts were completed in 1930. The early success of this scheme gave rise to a petition by farmers for the establishment of the Loskop Irrigation District. The old Transvaal Irrigation Department had undertaken a reconnaissance survey of such an irrigation scheme on the Olifants River between 1905 and 1907. However, back then itwas recommended that an irrigation scheme should not be implemented until the valley was more densely populated, and not before there was the prospect of a railway service to the area.
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