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Name Country County Grid Ref. Location Maximum volume m 3 [1] Planning date Completion date 26 Abberton: England: Essex: TL9810018300 39,000,000: 1935 [i] 1939 175 Agden: England: South Yorkshire: SK2610092300
List of dams and reservoirs; List of reservoirs in the United Kingdom by volume. Geography of the United Kingdom; List of lakes in England; List of loughs in Ireland; List of lochs in Scotland; List of lakes in Wales; List of rivers of the United Kingdom; Waterways in the United Kingdom
Haweswater is a reservoir in the valley of Mardale, Cumbria in the Lake District, England.Work to raise the height of the original natural lake was started in 1929. It was controversially dammed after the UK Parliament passed a local act of Parliament, the Manchester Corporation Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5.
A hearing in a lawsuit against BHP over Brazil's worst environmental disaster, the 2015 collapse of the Mariana dam, will begin at London's High Court on Monday, with claimants seeking up to 36 ...
Rivelin Dams Upper: 1848 220,000 0.3 Snailsden Reservoir 1870s 196,440 0.5 Hurst Reservoir: 1837 (drained in 2013) 167,000 0.4 Linacre Lower Reservoir: 1855 140,000 0.4 9 Black Moss Reservoir 0.3 Diggle Reservoir 0.2 Redbrook Reservoir 0.4 Swellands Reservoir 0.3 Swineshaw Reservoir* 1864
Meldon Dam - overflow. Over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, eight reservoirs and dams have been built in the area now covered by Dartmoor National Park in Devon (six before the park was designated, and two after), [1] England to supply drinking water to the rapidly growing towns in the surrounding lowlands. With its deep valleys and ...
The Upper Derwent Valley is an area of the Peak District National Park in England. It largely lies in Derbyshire, but its north eastern area lies in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Its most significant features are the Derwent Dams, Ladybower, Derwent and Howden, which form Ladybower Reservoir, Derwent Reservoir and Howden Reservoir respectively.