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August 2017
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Research Article| August 01 2017

BDS conference – tour 2 – the gateway to the lakes Available to Purchase

Craig Goff, BEng, MSc, CEng, FICE, CMgr, MCMI
Craig Goff, BEng, MSc, CEng, FICE, CMgr, MCMI
Principal Dams Engineer
HR Wallingford, Wallingford, UK (c.goff@hrwallingford.com)
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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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