River Dove Water Board

Scope and Content

River Dove Scheme: Doveridge Reservoir; Foremark Valley Reservoir Scheme including Milton Waterworks, 1966-2000 Project, and proposed balancing reservoir; Water Orders; Staunton Harold Reservoir including puddle core clay sources; City of Leicester Water Department investigation as to cause of major burst at 27" diameter water distribution main, Rushey Fields, Leicester, 21 October 1960, and Water Supplies Area No. 2 - Rutland: possible effects of proposed opencast ironstone workings on the Clisham Ford and Empingham spring sources (River Dove system).

Contract documents, plans including piezometric survey (Rushey Fields), reports, notes, correspondence including between Morton and Rowe re Dutch and other experience with bituminous reservoir coatings (Foremark Reservoir), minutes of meetings, site and progress meeting notes, press cutting, New Civil Engineer article, test data, maps, photographs (Rushey Fields), etc. Including borehole daily progress sheets (Staunton Harold). Also Rowe documents including manuscript notes.

See also Severn Trent Water Authority, EMP/3/164.