The Missed Dam

 

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

 

 Carpark to start with 

 

Dolymynach reservoir from the road

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.

Happy SkyWatch 

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