Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 606498
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606498
Clunie Dam is sited in the gorge of the Tummel about two miles downstream from the natural outlet of Loch Tummel. It raised the level of the loch by 17 ft and more than doubled its length. The mass gravity dam completed in 1951 is 65 ft high and has two 60 ft long automatic drum-type spillway gates for flood control which automatically lower themselves to the extent necessary to pass flood water. A fish pass with 43 pools enables salmon to surmount the dam. The main contractor was George Wimpey & Co.
R Paxton and J Shipway
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
