Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 978369

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/978369

Opened in 1969, this embankment-type dam was the first to contain chemical grouting. It is 42.6m high by 570m long. Built by Balfour Beatty, with, as consulting engineers, Babtie Shaw and Morton. Note the curving spillway and island syphon house.

M Watson, 2013