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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 743285
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/743285
NN17SW 22.00 13205 74956
Pipe Lines [NAT] (at NN 1291 7502)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1975.
NN17SW 22.01 NN 13718 74782 Surge Chamber ('Shaft')
For associated Lochaber Aluminium Smelter (centred NN 12556 75030), see NN17NW 16.00.
Extends onto map sheet NN17NW.
Location formerly entered as NN 128 750 to NN 135 748.
These penstocks supply water (for hydro-electric power generation) to the Lochaber Aluminium Smelter, Fort William (NN17NW 16).
The available map evidence depicts two parallel penstocks, that to the N running from NN 13600 74824 to NN 12816 75125, and that to the S from NN 13576 74794 to NN 12814 75069.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 June 2006.
