Frankley Reservoir
Frankley Reservoir is a semi-circular reservoir in Worcestershire that holds drinking water for Birmingham. It is operated by Severn Trent Water.[1] Its construction was authorised by the Birmingham Corporation Water Act of 1892,[2] and was built by Birmingham Corporation Water Department to designs by Abram Kellett of Ealing in 1904.[3]
It contains 200 million gallons of water received from the Elan Valley Reservoirs,[3] 73 miles away in Radnorshire, which arrives via the Elan Aqueduct, by the power of gravity alone, dropping 170 feet – an average gradient of 1 in 2,300.
Before 1987 it was leaking 116 gallons per second. In that year ground-penetrating radar was used successfully to isolate the leaks.[3]
References
- ↑ Environment Agency public register of Large Raised Reservoirs, as at 2 November 2020, via Boswarva, Owen. "Large Raised Reservoirs". https://www.owenboswarva.com/blog/note-lrr1.htm.
- ↑ 55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxiii
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Radar". Penguin Dictionary of Civil Engineering. Penguin Books. p. 347.
Outside links
- Location map: 52°25’14"N, 1°59’55"W
- History
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