Wimbleball Lake
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wimbleball-lake-266-17232738
title:
Wimbleball Lake
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Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor in Somerset, England, is a water supply reservoir constructed in the 1970s and completed in 1979. The 161 feet (49 m) high dam is of concrete buttress construction and impounds the River Haddeo to provide a water storage capacity of some 21,000 megalitres over an area of 374 acres (1.51 km2). Aggregate for the dam came from a quarry at Bampton and sand from Uffculme. These were combined to give a pinkish tinge to blend in with the local geology. The tributary valleys in
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Reservoir in Somerset
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimbleball_Lake
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2024-01-11T04:36:59Z
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