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Volume 27, Issue 2
August 2017
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Research Article| August 01 2017

BDS conference – tour 2 – the gateway to the lakes

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1756-8404
Print ISSN: 1368-1494
ICE Publishing: All rights reserved
2017
Dams and Reservoirs (2017) 27 (2): 54–55.
https://doi.org/10.1680/jdare.17.00009

This paper is an account of the 19th biennial BDS conference 2016, site tour 2 – the gateway to the lakes. The British Dam Society (BDS) delegates first visited the Fisher Tarn Reservoir which is a combination of masonry gravity and earthfill dam. The tour also took in Wet Sleddale Reservoir, which is a concrete gravity dam ∼29 m high and 591 m long.

Keywords: dams, barrages & reservoirs, floods & floodworks, water supply
ICE Publishing: All rights reserved
2017
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