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2 unusual facts about Tunstall Reservoir


Tunstall Reservoir

The reservoir is now used solely to maintain minimum regulatory flows on the River Wear, in support of raw water abstractions further downstream, at Chester-le-Street.

Until 2004, the reservoir supplied a water treatment works located immediately below the dam wall, but, with the opening of a new treatment works adjacent to Burnhope Reservoir at Wearhead, the Tunstall works was abandoned.



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