Field Visit
Date 2010
Event ID 881971
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/881971
Droma Dam prevents water crossing the watershed and leaving the catchment and directs it into Loch Glascarnoch (see separate item) providing storage capacity in the scheme. Water leaves the dam through a tunnel before existing into Loch Vaich and thence into Loch Glascarnoch. The dam is relatively low lying as a consequence of the local topography of flat moorland plain. Compensation is supplied to the river from a central valve. There are several pipes which feed water from separate catchments into the dam. The dam has a relatively limited landscape contribution because of its long low profile. It is of predominantly functional design. PL Payne,1988, 5; E Wood, 2002, 38; J Miller, 2002.
