Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 934244
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/934244
Morar Dam, Inverness-shire
(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 2539)
A small dam, built by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board in 1948. The power station is built in a cavern excavated in a knoll beside the Falls of Morar. Little more than a doorway and a retaining wall is visible. The
scheme initially raised the level of Loch Morar by only 3 ft, but owing to the falls, the operating head for the Kaplan turbines is 16 ft. There is an automatically operated drum gate on the dam spillway. A fish pass [approx. NM6829 9226] enables sea trout and salmon to surmount the dam. The capacity of the scheme is 750 kW, the smallest of the Board’s first three projects.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
