Wet Sleddale Reservoir is an artificial reservoir set amongst the Shap Fells 4 kilometres (2 mi) south of the village of Shap in Cumbria, England, and lies just within the boundary of the Lake District National Park. The triangular shaped reservoir, which can store 2,300 million litres of water, was created by the construction of a dam across Sleddale Beck in order to supply Manchester with water.[3] The dam is 21m high and 600m long.[4]
Manchester Corporation were given powers to construct the reservoir under the Haweswater Act, 1919 but construction did not start until the 1960s and completion was in 1966.[9]
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^White, E., et al. “An Assessment of the Relative Importance of Several Chemical Sources to the Waters of a Small Upland Catchment.” Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 8, no. 3, 1971, pp. 743–749. www.jstor.org/stable/2402681.
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