View from NE showing fishladder, in foreground, and dam, in background, under construction. Copy of 'Clunie Dam. General view of Fishladder. Ser. No. 86. Date: 9/11/49'.

Description View from NE showing fishladder, in foreground, and dam, in background, under construction. Copy of 'Clunie Dam. General view of Fishladder. Ser. No. 86. Date: 9/11/49'.

Date 9/11/1949

Collection Records of the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board (1943-90), Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 874659

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 49235

Scope and Content Tummel/Garry Project, [contract 16], Clunie Dam, general view of fish ladder, 9 November 1949 Clunie Dam measures 21m high and 115m long, and was completed in 1951. The structure was built by contractors George Wimpey and Company. Water is diverted by tunnel from the dam to Clunie power station, built at the point where the rivers Garry and Tummel meet. From there is flows into the man-made loch at Faskally. Shown is the main body of the dam, in the background, nearing completion, with the waters of the river Tummel flowing under it. In the foreground and on the left is the fish ladder provided to allow salmon to ascend to their spawning grounds. There is a similar ladder at Pitlochry Dam. The main parts of the Tummel scheme were the building of the Clunie Dam at the east end of Loch Tummel, the construction of a large power station at Clunie, and the building of a combined power station and dam at Pitlochry. The Tummel scheme was one of eight large schemes built by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board during the 1940s to 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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