It prevents tidal water ingress up-river for all but the highest tides; it provides the water head for an abstraction immediately behind the weir and it holds back what is a long linear lake which enables that largest abstraction to be taken at Huntington for the North West Water supply to the Wirral and surrounding areas.
In 1838 the City of Chester Waterworks company was established inheriting an intake at the causeway - now called Chester Weir and elsewhere in the city.
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