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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 845578
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/845578
NS57NE 63.01 55599 76479 and 55634 76466
Gauge Basins [NAT]
OS Landline, January 2006.
For general summary of Loch Katrine (reservoir), see NN41SW 29.
The growth of Glasgow and the subsequent need for unpolluted water for both human and industrial consumption, resulted in the decision to build an aqueduct to provide water to the city. Loch Katrine was chosen to be the source of the supply. The system (34 miles long) was inaugurated by Queen Victoria on the 14 October 1859. By 1883 an additional supply from Loch Katrine was needed due to the increased consumption of water by the city. An additional aqueduct was constructed from 1885. The new system, measuring 23.5 miles in length, was officially opened on 21st June 1901.
Glasgow Corporation Water-Works 1909
Loch Katrine scheme, Mugdock west gauge (NS55599 76479; Muylle Id =282): This is the original gauge basin of the 1855 scheme. This is where the reservoir water level is measured.
Loch Katrine scheme, Mugdock east gauge (NS55634 76466 ; Muylle Id =283): This gauge basin was added later, presumably to take water from the 1885 tunnel independantly of Craigmaddie Reservoir. The gauge bason is designed to measure tyhe fordce of flow and to act as a stilling basin prior to water passing into the measuring pond.
Information from Jelle Muylle, engineer carrying out a survey of aqueducts and related structures of the Glasgow
Corporation Loch Katrine Waterworks Scheme, 2006.
