Breaching of Gamtoos River Mouth - Jeffreys Bay, South Africa

Video clip of the breaching of the flooded Gamtoos River Mouth on 11 September 2018. So it happened!!! The Gamtoos River Mouth has been manually breached. Earlier today the Kouga Municipal Manager finally obtained permission from the EC MEC after an intensified effort. The farmers suffering from flooded pastures were given permission to breach the mouth and they stepped up to the mammoth task with their amazing staff. In a matter of three hours, they dug a deep channel by spade. The channel might seem narrow and small at this stage, but the river is filled with millions of cubic meters of excess water and by late this afternoon flood water from the Groot River has been expected to reach the top of the Gamtoos River, pushing more water into the already flooded system. By tomorrow morning that channel will look somewhat different than now... Hats of to the team of workers of Mondplaas who saved the day!