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Lake Vyrnwy ( Welsh: Llyn Efyrnwy, pronounced [ɛˈvərnʊɨ] or Llyn Llanwddyn) is a reservoir in Powys, Wales, built in the 1880s for Liverpool Corporation Waterworks to supply Liverpool with fresh water. It flooded the head of the Vyrnwy ( Welsh: Afon Efyrnwy) valley and submerged the village of Llanwddyn . The Lake Vyrnwy Nature Reserve and ...
Lake Vyrnwy Straining Tower. / 52.7699; -3.4658. The Straining Tower at Lake Vyrnwy is an intake tower built to extract water from the lake. The tower stands on the north shore of Lake Vyrnwy, near the village of Llanwddyn, in Powys, Wales. The Lake Vyrnwy dam project was designed to provide a water supply to the city of Liverpool and work on ...
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks. The Lake Vyrnwy dam was built to impound drinking water for Liverpool in the 1880s. Liverpool Corporation Waterworks and its successors have provided a public water supply and sewerage and sewage treatment services to the city of Liverpool, England. In 1625 water was obtained from a single well and delivered by ...
52.7613°N 3.4517°W. / 52.7613; -3.4517. The Quarry, Llanwddyn. Llanwddyn ( Welsh pronunciation ⓘ) is a village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. The community is centred on the Lake Vyrnwy reservoir. The original Llanwddyn village, about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest, was submerged when the reservoir was created in the 1880s.
In 1892 water from Lake Vyrnwy supplemented the water stored in Prescot. Four smaller reservoirs were built with a capacity of 200 million gallons, sufficient to supply Liverpool for four days. Today, so much water is abstracted from Rivington for use in Lancashire that the flow is reversed and water from Vyrnwy is used to supply towns in ...
George Deacon (civil engineer) George Frederick Deacon ( 26 July 1843 – 17 June 1909) was an English civil engineer . A pupil and lifelong friend of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Deacon was Lord Kelvin's assistant on the SS Great Eastern cable-laying expedition. [1] He was both borough engineer and water engineer to Liverpool from 1871 ...
South Wales. Cardiff Corporation Waterworks opened both Llanishen Reservoir and Lisvane Reservoir in 1886. It later commissioned the construction of three reservoirs in Cwm Taf to supply water to the capital. Beacons Reservoir was the first to take shape, between 1893–97, Cantref Reservoir was built between 1886–92 and the damming of the ...
It was built between 1888 and 1892 on the water pipeline between Lake Vyrnwy in North Wales and Liverpool to act as a balancing reservoir in the process of supplying water to Runcorn and Liverpool. Water is carried to Liverpool through a tunnel 10 feet (3 m) wide under the River Mersey. [2] It is the largest UK tromboned pressure relief device ...