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Latitude: 56.6984 / 56°41'54"N
Longitude: -4.948 / 4°56'52"W
OS Eastings: 219596
OS Northings: 760185
OS Grid: NN195601
Mapcode National: GBR GC50.DBR
Mapcode Global: WH2HJ.ZW0S
Plus Code: 9C8QM3X2+9R
Entry Name: Kinlochleven Village Water Supply Dam
Listing Name: Kinlochleven Village Water Supply Dam (Near West Highland Way)
Listing Date: 31 January 1991
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 345869
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12928
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200345869
Location: Lismore and Appin
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Fort William and Ardnamurchan
Parish: Lismore And Appin
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
P W Meik (Thomas Meik and Sons), chief engineer, Alfred H Roberts, resident engineer, Sir W Murray Morrison, manager and technical advisor, Sir John Jackson Ltd, principal contractor. Circa 1909. Dam of mass concrete gravity construction 440 feet long and 55 feet high (in 1911 "at present only carried up to half this height").5:1 mass concrete with 4:1 fine concrete face. Pronounced batter to N with modern railings to part.24" diam cast-iron upstand tower just S of dam with original railed platform and sluice mechanism.
"A fine example of solid sound homogenous work" (Roberts). This supplied a reservoir near the village and is presumbly the second dam (after the Blackwater) in Britain to have been built without masonry cladding.
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