Wenallt Reservoir, Cardiff

Scope and Content

Wenallt Reservoir, Cardiff. Client: Cardiff Corporation Water Works. Correspondence, plans, calculations, notes, Rowe's report, copy article relating to history of the reservoir, problems encountered during construction, etc., May 1929, and client documents, Edgar Morton and Partner material, relating to proposed covering of the reservoir 1965-1966, proposed deep cutting on the M4 motorway (from Castleton to Coryton) adjoining the Wenallt Service Reservoir, 1973-1975, and later relatively minor slip on the face of the cut, 1978, analysis and proposed remedial works and temporary works. Includes standpipe water level readings for Leckwith Reservoir No. 2, 1963.