Wet Sleddale Reservoir
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Wet Sleddale Reservoir | |
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Lake District National Park | |
Location | Shap, Cumbria |
Coordinates | 54°29′47″N 2°41′44″W / 54.49639°N 2.69556°W |
Type | reservoir |
Catchment area | 12.14 km2 (1,214 ha)[1] |
Basin countries | United Kingdom |
Surface area | 30.7 ha (76 acres)[2] |
Wet Sleddale Reservoir is an artificial
Lake District National Park. The triangular shaped reservoir, which can store 2,300 million litres of water, was created by the construction of a dam across Sleddale Beck in order to supply Manchester with water.[3] The dam is 21m high and 600m long.[4]
The extracted water is carried to Haweswater, mainly through tunnels.[5]
The beck emerges from the foot of the dam as the
public right of way gives access to the south side of the reservoir.[7] Alfred Wainwright describes a walk from here in the Wet Sleddale Horseshoe chapter of his The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.[8]
Manchester Corporation were given powers to construct the reservoir under the Haweswater Act, 1919 but construction did not start until the 1960s and completion was in 1966.[9]
References
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- ^ White, E., et al. “An Assessment of the Relative Importance of Several Chemical Sources to the Waters of a Small Upland Catchment.” Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 8, no. 3, 1971, pp. 743–749. www.jstor.org/stable/2402681.
- ^ British Lakes - Wet Sleddale Reservoir
- ^ Article at VisitCumbria.com with images
- ^ Article at engineering-timelines.com
- ^ Culvert over the Naddle Beck possibly the only point where the Wet Sleddale - Haweswater aqueduct comes above ground.
- ^ Review of the Wet Sleddale "Waterbank" Archived 25 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, ie. the regulation of discharges to the Lowther from the reservoir.
- ^ Ordnance Survey 1:63360 scale Touring Map & Guide 3: Lake District
- ^ Wainwright, A. (1974). "The Wet Sleddale Horseshoe". The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Kendal: Westmorland Gazette. pp. 242–247.
- ^ Article at www.thingstodolakedistrict.co.uk