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Dam Attractions In Rhayader

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Rhayader is a market town, community and electoral ward in Radnorshire, Powys, central Wales. The town is one of the principal centres of population in the mostly Anglicised historic county of Radnorshire and has a population of 2,088. 55% of the community have some form of Welsh identity according to the 2011 census.It is the first town on the banks of the River Wye, 20 miles from its source on the Plynlimon range of the Cambrian Mountains. It is situated roughly midway between North and south Wales on the A470, 13 miles north of Builth Wells and 30 miles east of Aberystwyth on the A44 - two of Wales' most important trunk roads.
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  • 1. Elan Valley Rhayader
    The Elan Valley Reservoirs are a chain of man-made lakes created from damming the Elan and Claerwen rivers within the Elan Valley in Mid Wales. The reservoirs, which were built by the Birmingham Corporation Water Department, provide clean drinking water for Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. The five lakes are known as the Claerwen, Craig-goch, Pen-y-garreg, Garreg-ddu, and Caban-coch.Water from the reservoirs is carried by gravity to Frankley Reservoir in Birmingham via the Elan aqueduct. Pumping is not required because the network drops 52 metres along its 73 miles length from its source to Frankley. A gradient of 1:2300 maintains a flow of less than 2 miles per hour ; water takes two and a half to three days to reach Birmingham. The aqueduct, which was started in 1896 and opene...
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