A similar Rainfall
as before of
of
19 wiches available, would give a quantly of 287,000,000 Gallons for Storage .
This Steam has the largest gathering ground of any in the Island, and the site
I propose larger impounding eurface - then can be found elsewhere as this Valley rises less at
abruptly
as that for the Reservoir has a
than
any
other.
"There is one other great advantage to a Reservoir at this place, which is that aw creellent Bife wash Chaund can be cutout of the rock at the castern end of the Einbaukiment where a small stream runs
up to and is cut off from the Reservoirs by a narrow.
ridge of bill...
A rainfall of 29 inches
Again-
a
available - or of 87 wiches actual
667
the above Gathering
acres
area
of
would give the whole of
the quantity required of £150, 000,000
Gallous and a
new Reservoir.
here, as now proposed,
having
a
depth of water
22.
{
50
50 feet in the deepest part uned mesound 10,000,000 Getons
AUDRE
thony
are actually wanted _ at the rate of 20 Guttons per head per diem . __
It wie thus be seen that Eylam is the only soured from which we can procure the exhu supply by gruerty alone - the outlet from it is at the sound height as that at Bok foolum _ The cutlet pomf Aberdeen would be lower by 200 ft and the prea of the objecthering ground less by 100) acres. The only draw buck to the Explam: scheme is that it is some what further envey them either Aberdeen or Pokfoolum - yet after all the distince is a mere nothing of wes compare it with the supply to Glasgow from Loch Katrine, or to Bombay from Uchur - With the sold exception of the distance from S plam being greaker than from Abudun there is no question whahver of comparison between the livo schemes - the forener being.
the former being mi aldr
makrial points preferable to the latterl
I have now strewn whence the
additional), supply can be obtened and I.
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