In the UK we have had very little rain for most of the summer from June to August this has resulted in a hosepipe ban in parts of the UK. So far this has not affected us where we live and over the last few days we have had a bit of rain. So I was interested to see how the Elan Reservoir was holding up being as it supplied Birmingham. I had seen a few photos but wanted to see myself and over the weekend I went there while we were in Wales. Before you look at the photos I suggest you look at my Blog on the Elan Valley for some background on it or just go through the photos. and it will show you the places I visited in this blog
This is the Caban Coch Dam
The outflow you can see below
This is what forms the River Elan that eventually flows into the River Wye
Below it is the old turbine buildings and visitor centre
Next along is when you would think is a bridge but below it is a dam, you can see it in a photon in the blog I linked. The water is low
Showing the banks of the reservoir
Makes me wonder how much lower it can go
The Foel tower the pick up point for the water going to Birmingham
The next Dam is reached by going over a bridge first, looking over I was surprised at what I saw below
Looking towards the dam you could see how the water had cut through the rock over the years
Thousands of years of the water running has done this and its not something you see often here
Look up and you can see the dam in the distance
The water behind it was very low
The whole bank was on show
Looking towards Point Elan
Looking down from the dam you see the where the river has cut through the rock
Looking further along you see an island has begun to get bigger, the first time I saw this it looked like a clump of trees in the middle of a mass of water now it looks like you could almost walk to it from one side. I went away felling quite shocked at what I had seen and often wonder what this place would have looked like before the flooded the valleys
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12 comments:
Great photos and documentation of the dry summer there.
It's amazing how low that water is. You reminded me of a trip I took to northern California during a bad drought some 25 to 30 years ago. I was shocked to see how low water was in some of the lakes.
What a cool place.
Yes, that's seriously low.
Even with the low water, there's still some beautiful things to see. Nature always amazes me with the rock formations.
Was unsure what to expect there
We had a bad one back in 1976 but I never knew of the dams then
It is, I love going there
Gets lower
Yes I'm glad I saw them
That is quite low, glad you took photos of it. Be interesting to compare with another time period.
After such a wet winter and spring I am surprised by the lack of water. Maybe we need to look at storing water underground so we don't lose so much through evaporation.
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