Frankley Reservoir
52°25′14″N 1°59′55″W / 52.42069°N 1.99849°W / 52.42069; -1.99849
Act of Parliament | |
Long title | An Act for empowering the corporation of the city of Birmingham to obtain a supply of water from the rivers Elan and Claerwen and for other purposes. |
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Citation | 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxiii |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 27 June 1892 |
Frankley Reservoir is a semi-circular reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water.[1] Its construction was authorised by the Birmingham Corporation Water Act 1892 (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
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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