Frankley Reservoir

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Frankley Reservoir is a semi-circular reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England. Its construction was authorised by the Birmingham Corporation Water Act of 1892. It was built by Abram Kellett of Ealing in 1904. [Penguin Dictionary of Civil Engineering p347 ("Radar")]

It contains 900,000m³ of water received from the Elan Valley Reservoirs, [Penguin Dictionary of Civil Engineering p347 ("Radar")] Convert|73|mi|km|0|abbr=on away, in Wales, which arrives by the power of gravity alone, dropping 171 feet (52 m) - an average gradient of 1 in 2,300.

Before 1987 it was leaking 540 litres per second. In that year Ground-penetrating radar was used successfully to isolate the leaks. [Penguin Dictionary of Civil Engineering p347 ("Radar")]

ee also

*List of reservoirs and dams in the United Kingdom
*Frankley Water Treatment Works

External links

* [http://www.miac.org.uk/frankleywater.htm History]
*gbmapping|SP002803

References