Description

The water supply was augmented by the Hely-Hutchinson Dam which was completed seven years after Woodhead Dam opened. It was built upstream from Woodhead Dam and is also situated on Table Mountain’s Disa River. Both have masonry dam walls constructed of sandstone blocks which were carved out of the mountain by stonemasons. A small railway line and a cable car connecting the top of Kasteelspoort to Camps Bay were constructed to assist with the dams’ construction. A small waterworks museum, which includes the original locomotive, is located next to the dams. Water from these two dams is treated at the Kloofnek Water Treatment Plant. The water takes an interesting route to get there. First, it is released into the Disa River Gorge where it flows as a small river towards Hout Bay. Closer to Hout Bay, the water is fed through the 700 metre Woodhead Tunnel that runs through the Twelve Apostles mountains to the Camps Bay side. From there it is piped into cast iron pipes that run along the popular Pipe Track hiking trail to the Kloofnek Treatment Works.

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