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Blackwater Reservoir
Reservoir (20th Century)
Site Name Blackwater Reservoir
Classification Reservoir (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Black Water; Loch Leven; Kinlochleven Aluminium Works
Canmore ID 281672
Site Number NN36SW 2
NGR NN 30500 60200
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/281672
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmallie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NN36SW 2 30500 60200
Blackwater Reservoir
Top water level 326m above Newlyn datum [NAT] (centred NN 306 601)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.
Extends across parts of map sheets NN25NE, NN26SE, and NN36SE, and across part of the parish of Lismore and Appin.
For (associated) KInlochleven Aluminium Works (centred NN 18947 61835), see NN16SE 3.00.
For (associated) Blackwater Dam (NN 24790 60371) and other facilities, see NN26SW 3.00.
For (associated) Blackwater Dam, Burial-ground (Construction Graveyard) at NN 24213 60253, see NN26SW 4.
This reservoir formerly supplied water for hydro-electric power generation at Kinlochleven Aluminium Works (NN16SE 3.00: centred NN 18947 61835). The associated Blackwater Dam (NN26SW 3.00) is at the W end, at NN 24790 60371.
The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 2006.
Publication Account (2013)
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
