Elan Valley - Craig-Goch Reservoir 70s Dennis postcard

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Craig-Goch Reservoir, Elan Valley, Wales
• Publisher:  ETW Dennis (No. N.0646)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The Elan Valley Reservoirs are a chain of man-made lakes and reservoirs in the Elan Valley in Powys, Mid Wales (also known as the "Welsh Lake District"), using the rivers Elan and Claerwen. The reservoirs are Claerwen, Craig Goch, Pen-y-Garreg, Garreg Ddu, and Caban Coch.

The work carried carried out over a hundred years ago to build the Elan Valley dams and reservoirs was only part of the huge undertaking. Almost as impressive was the challenge of delivering the enormous quantities of water by gravity alone, across very hilly country and over many river valleys, to the new Frankley Reservoir on the outskirts of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. This involved building the 73 mile long Elan aqueduct, down which the water travels at less than 2 miles per hour, taking one and a half days to get to Birmingham.

The Elan aqueduct drops only 52m over a length of 118 km – a gradient of 1:2300. It runs from the Elan Valley to Frankley in Birmingham. There are several signs of the aqueduct between these points, in the form of brick aqueducts, exposed pipelines and red brick valve houses on hillsides.[1]

Birmingham's tap water is noted for being exceptionally soft, with a low percentage of dissolved minerals.^[1]

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