Frankley Reservoir
Frankley Reservoir is a semi-circular reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water. Its construction was authorised by the Birmingham Corporation Water Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxiii) It was built by Birmingham Corporation Water Department to designs by Abram Kellett of Ealing in 1904.
| Frankley Reservoir | |
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Frankley Reservoir | |
| Location | Birmingham |
| Coordinates | 52.42069°N 1.99849°W |
| Type | Drinking water |
| Primary inflows | Elan aqueduct |
| Primary outflows | Frankley Water Treatment Works |
| Act of Parliament | |
Parliament of the United Kingdom | |
| 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 |
It contains 900,000 cubic metres (200,000,000 imp gal) of water received from the Elan Valley Reservoirs, 117 km (73 mi) away, in Wales, which arrives via the Elan aqueduct, by the power of gravity alone, 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 year ground-penetrating radar was used successfully to isolate the leaks.
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