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Booth Wood Reservoir

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Type
  
Max. length
  
0.93 miles (1.5 km)

Max depth
  
46 m

Area
  
21 ha

Shore length
  
5 km

Basin countries
  
England

Surface area
  
52 acres (20.9 ha)

Length
  
1,497 m

Catchment area
  
15.7 kmĀ²

Managing agency
  
Booth Wood Reservoir httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Average depth
  
5 feet 3 inches (1.6 m)

Similar
  
Baitings Reservoir, Scammonden Bridge, Deanhead Reservoir, Scammonden Reservoir, Ryburn Reservoir

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Booth Wood Reservoir is a man-made upland reservoir that lies north of the M62 motorway and south of the A672 road near to Rishworth and Ripponden in Calderdale West Yorkshire, England. The reservoir was approved for construction in 1966 and completed in 1971. It supplies water to Wakefield.

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Map of Booth Wood Reservoir, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge, UK

The reservoir dams the Booth Dean Clough watercourse and takes water directly from the surrounding moorland. It has a plain concrete crest on the dam head which is straight and extends to a length of 1,150 feet (350 m) and a height of 157 feet (48 m).

In 1995 a long dry spell in the summer created a larger than normal abstraction of water from Booth Wood creating the need to transport water into the reservoir as stocks ran very low. Road tankers carrying fresh water were despatched from Selby in North Yorkshire and Kielder Water in Northumberland to bring water for offloading at Booth Wood. At the height of the operation, 700 tankers delivered 70,000 litres of water a day to the reservoir which then fed other reservoirs in West Yorkshire.

On 14 August 2016, the A672 road which runs along the northern edge of the reservoir was closed whilst police searched for a driver and car that had plunged off the road and into the reservoir. The driver was believed to be the only person in the car and the search operation involved helicopters and underwater divers. The search resumed the next day when a man's body was recovered.

Booth wood reservoir aerial photography


References

Booth Wood Reservoir Wikipedia