I visited the Elan Valley may years ago and love the place, I taken with all the dams holding back water in the reservoirs the whole place had a beauty of it's own. I wrote a blog The Elan Valley which will show them all if you look. When I visited I did not realise there was a dam I missed till I looked on the OS maps then checked on Google finding a photo. I swore I would come back and find a way to get there, early this year I found it and the other day went to see it.
Collage to start with
You have to walk through the nature reserve to get there
You get to here
Then you see the dam, the tower on the left is the inlet for a pipe that takes water lower down the valley
Get closer and you see the back of the dam
That is what it looks like across the top
And that is the river that is now the end of the Caban-coch Reservoir as you can see it is low
One of the spillways with water flowing over it
This is from the river bed looking to the dam. It was not the easiest of places to get to
Looking down at the dam from the wall
River bed show with my phone, I did not give it a thought to turn roud and take on the other way
Phone shot of the dam
The big opening in the middle, water does not come out of here to my knowledge
Its big to look at but further up behind this dam is another which is even bigger
Going back down the valley to the Caban-coch Reservoir, you can see how low that is, the tower over on the right is the pick up point for the water to be taken to Birmingham, needless to say they are drinking it dry
And this is the other side, the lower dam is showing something I have never seen before. That is it I hope to return again to update the photos I have taken of the other dams but check the link and you will see how it looks when it is full.
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