• The Woodhead Dam is a masonry gravity dam that is 277 m (909 ft) long and 50 m (164 ft) high. It has a free overspill spillway with a capacity of 20 m3/s (706 ft3/s).
  • # The City of Cape Town is inviting people to visit the Woodhead Dam Museum. The museum located across the Hely Hutchinson Dam on Table Mountain...
  • Hely Hutchinson Dam (The fifth of five dams on Table Mountain). Photo by Willem Breyl.
  • The Woodhead dam was constructed between 1893 and 1897 on the ‘Back Table’ of the well-known landmark Table Mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town.
  • Once you reach the Woodhead dam the path then brings you back via the southern side of the mountain which is filled with moss and ferns, Disa Gorge.
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