Nutscale Reservoir is a reservoir located in Exmoor in north west Somerset, England. It supplies the town of Minehead and nearby Porlock and Porlock Weir.[1] The reservoir is part of the River Horner catchment area, and is dammed. Nutscale Reservoir is fed by Nutscale Water and water is piped to the Porlock Treatment Works, supplying around 3,000 cubic metres (110,000 cu ft) per day, and to six other farms and camp sites.
| Nutscale Reservoir | |
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  Nutscale Reservoir | |
| Location | Exmoor, Somerset, England |
| Coordinates | 51°10′37″N 3°37′52″W / 51.177°N 3.631°W |
| Primary inflows | Nutscale Water |
| Primary outflows | Nutscale Water |
| Managing agency | Wessex Water |
| Built | 1942 |
| Surface area | 8 acres (3.2 ha) |
| Average depth | 12.2 metres (40 ft) |
| Water volume | 277,000 m3 (225 acre⋅ft) |
| Shore length1 | 1,140 metres (3,740 ft) |
| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
The reservoir was built in 1942, to hold 36,000,000 imperial gallons (160,000,000 L; 43,000,000 US gal).[2] This was intended to relieve summer droughts in Minehead.[3] It typically provides good quality water, although high levels of geosmin were recorded in 2008.[4] To manage the effects of this on tap water systems were developed to remove this reservoir from the drinking water supply when necessary and flush the pipe carrying the water.[5]
The fishing rights to the reservoir are owned by the National Trust, as part of its Holnicote Estate, and leased out privately.[6]
References edit
- ^ "Nutscale Reservoir". BBC. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ "Conspirators Charge Against Council". Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser. 30 July 1938. Retrieved 8 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Minehead Summer Shortage". Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser. 4 December 1937. Retrieved 8 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Nutscale Reservoir Taste and Odour Investigations" (PDF). Wessex Water. Retrieved 8 October 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Public water supplies in the Western region of England July 2012 A report by the Chief Inspector of Drinking Water" (PDF). DEFRA. p. 27. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ^ "Fishery Survey of the Horner Water Catchment" (PDF). National Rivers Authority. 1993. Retrieved 8 October 2015.