Glascarnoch Dam
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James Williamson and Partners (engineers for the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board technical panel), 1957. Prominent large curved dam flanked by turfed earth fill wings; central control tower and central fixed spillway with vehicular access road oversailing. Concrete mass gravity construction with rammed earth wings. Battered downstream face with concrete upstand walls to spillway. Tapered concrete piers, with single larger rectangular pier to centre above dispersal valve, support roadway with plain parapet above fixed spillway. Category B Listed: portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB51706
Photos:
1) www.geograph.org.uk/photo/688457
2) www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1410724
Photos:
1) www.geograph.org.uk/photo/688457
2) www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1410724
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_and_reservoirs_in_United_Kingdom#Highland
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Coordinates: 57°41'45"N 4°46'38"W
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