This blog contains news on the restoration works to Chasewater dam
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2011
The team at staffs county council have created a photo gallery to show the works they carried out to mend the entrance to the pipe/culvert through the dam, and also create a tower to help filter the water that flows through the dam in future. The photos show: Emptying of the area around the pipe. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2011
To thoroughly investigate the pipe/culvert that runs through the dam, the engineering team sent a camerabot into the pipe and took what we believe is the first even film footage of the inside of the dam! The footage reveals a hidden chamber the team was unaware of before, a working penstock and a broken penstock. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2011
Lots of you have been asking (including Brownhills Bob) about whether Pool Road that runs across the top of the dam will now be open. As I said to Stefan (a regular commenter on the blog), I need to refer to colleagues at the county council for answers to your questions, so sometimes they take a little [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2011
The 200-year-old reservoir at the heart of Chasewater Country Park was drained of water in early 2010 amid concerns for the safety of the dam which dates back to 1797. The £5.5 million project, started by Lichfield District Council was taken over by Staffordshire County Council in May 2011. Now the ‘plug has gone back [...]
Chasewater Dam
This blog contains news on the restoration works to Chasewater dam
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