Field Visit
Date 2010
Event ID 882008
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/882008
This power station is sited in a remote location to the NW of Lairg on a small burn. The site comprises a dam, powerhouse and a number of aqueducts and pipelines feeding water into the catchment from elsewhere. The dam provides an element of storage for Cassley Power Station to which it feeds water through a tunnel. The site also includes a small power station with a single turbine. Due to the remote location of the site this is operated entirely by water level. The input pipe slopes diagonally down into the water before curving downhill again to the turbines. Only when the water level is sufficient for water to ascend the inclined pipe can it flow into the penstocks and through the turbines. This is a standard item of its type. PL Payne, 1988, 5; E Wood, 2002, 38; J Miller, 2002.
