Frankley Reservoir
| Frankley Reservoir | ||
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Primary inflows Elan aqueduct | | |
| Primary outflows | Frankley Water Treatment Works | |
| Act of Parliament | |
 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxiii | |
| Dates | |
|---|---|
| Royal assent | 27 June 1892 |
Frankley Reservoir is a semi-circular
55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxiii) It was built by Birmingham Corporation Water Department to designs by Abram Kellett of Ealing in 1904.[2]
It contains 900,000 cubic metres (200,000,000 imp gal) of water received from the Elan Valley Reservoirs,[2] 117 km (73 mi) away, in Wales, which arrives via the Elan aqueduct, by the power of gravity alone, dropping 52 metres (171 ft) – an average gradient of 1 in 2,300.
Before 1987 it was leaking 540 litres (120 imp gal) per second. In that year ground-penetrating radar was used successfully to isolate the leaks.[2]
See also
- List of reservoirs and dams in the United Kingdom
- Frankley Water Treatment Works
References
- ^ Environment Agency public register of Large Raised Reservoirs, as at 2 November 2020, via Boswarva, Owen. "Large Raised Reservoirs". Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ^ a b c "Radar". Penguin Dictionary of Civil Engineering. Penguin Books. p. 347.
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