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Frankley Reservoir

A lake in Worcestershire, England

52°25′14″N 1°59′55″W / 52.42069°N 1.99849°W / 52.42069; -1.99849TypeDrinking waterPrimary inflowsElan aqueductPrimary outflowsFrankley Water Treatment Works

United Kingdom legislation

Birmingham Corporation Water Act 1892
Dates
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.
Citation	55 & 56 Vict. c. clxxiii
Royal assent	27 June 1892

Frankley Reservoir is a semi-circular reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England, operated by Severn Trent Water.^[1] 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.^[2]

It contains 900,000 cubic metres (200,000,000 imp gal) of water received from the Elan Valley Reservoirs,^[2] 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.^[2]

References

^ Environment Agency public register of Large Raised Reservoirs, as at 2 November 2020, via Boswarva, Owen. "Large Raised Reservoirs". Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Radar". Penguin Dictionary of Civil Engineering. Penguin Books. p. 347.