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The Claerwen reservoir and dam in Powys, Wales, were the last additions to the Elan Valley Reservoirs system built to provide water for the increasing water demand of the city of Birmingham and the West Midlands. The dam is built mainly of concrete, with the exterior dam face in dressed stone.
The work had to be done in advance because the water level of the Caban Coch would have submerged the site once the reservoir was full. The three-dam project became redundant when newer materials and superior engineering allowed the construction of the single larger Claerwen dam higher up the valley in the 1940/50s.
In Wales, Halcrow's largest works were typically related to water supply schemes, such as the Claerwen dam (completed in 1952) and the Clywedog dam (completed in 1967), which created reservoirs that controlled the water levels of various rivers as well as reliably supplying various towns and cities across the West Midlands.
Claerwen Reservoir; Craig-goch Reservoir; Penygarreg Reservoir; Garreg-ddu Reservoir; Caban-coch Reservoir; Lake Vyrnwy (Llyn Efyrnwy) - supplies water to the Liverpool area; Talybont Reservoir; Ystradfellte Reservoir; Clywedog Reservoir (Llyn Clywedog)
Elan Village chapel. Elan Village (Welsh: Pentre Elan) is a small purpose-built community in Powys, Wales.It was designed by architect Herbert Tudor Buckland as part of Birmingham Corporation's scheme to construct a series of water supply reservoirs in the Elan Valley between 1892 and 1904.
The Claerwen Group is a Silurian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in mid Wales. The name is derived from Claerwen in Powys where the strata are exposed. The Group comprises the Rhayader Mudstones Formation and the underlying Derwenlas Formation which outcrop across the region. The rocks of the Rhayader Mudstone Formation ...
19 October – A small Welsh republican group, Y Gweriniaethwyr, make an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the water pipeline leading from the Claerwen dam in mid Wales to Birmingham. [8] 23 October – Opening of Claerwen reservoir, the first engagement carried out in Wales by Elizabeth II since her accession as Queen of the United Kingdom. [9]
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