Frankley Reservoir
| Frankley Reservoir | |
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  Frankley Reservoir | |
| Location | Birmingham |
| Coordinates | 52°25′14″N1°59′55″W/ 52.42069°N 1.99849°W |
| Type | Drinking water |
| Primary inflows | Elan aqueduct |
| Primary outflows | Frankley Water Treatment Works |
| Act of Parliament | |
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| 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 Reservoiris a semi-circularreservoirfordrinking waterinBirmingham,England, operated bySevern Trent Water.[1]Its construction was authorised by theBirmingham Corporation Water Act 1892(55 & 56 Vict.c. clxxiii) It was built byBirmingham Corporation Water Departmentto designs by Abram Kellett of Ealing in 1904.[2]
It contains 900,000 cubic metres (200,000,000 imp gal) of water received from theElan Valley Reservoirs,[2]117 km (73 mi) away, inWales,which arrives via theElan aqueduct,by the power ofgravityalone, 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 yearground-penetrating radarwas used successfully to isolate the leaks.[2]
See also
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[edit]- ^Environment Agency public register of Large Raised Reservoirs, as at 2 November 2020, viaBoswarva, Owen."Large Raised Reservoirs".Retrieved7 December2020.
- ^abc"Radar".Penguin Dictionary of Civil Engineering.Penguin Books. p. 347.
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