Type Reservoir Surface area 68 acres (28 ha) Area 28 ha Year built 1872 | Basin countries England Average depth 45 feet (14 m) Mean depth 14 m Managing agency Yorkshire Water | |
Water volume 193 million imperial gallons (880 ML; 710 acre·ft) Similar Lower Laithe Reservoir, Ogden Water Country P, Lindley Wood Reservoir, Stoodley Pike, Grimwith Reservoir | ||
Warley Moor Reservoir, also known as Fly Flatts Reservoir, is a drinking water reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, owned and operated by Yorkshire Water.
Map of Warley Moor Reservoir, United Kingdom
Completed in 1872, the reservoir was built by the engineer John Frederick La Trobe Bateman. The first sod was cut on 20 May 1864, by the then Mayor of Halifax, William Holdsworth, who used a silver spade with the inscription:
Halifax Corporation – The first sod of the Warley Moor Reservoir was turned with this spade, on Friday, the 20th May, 1864, by William Irving Holdsworth, Esq., Mayor of Halifax; J. F. Bateman, Engineer; John Parkinson and Joseph Mann, contractors; J. E. Norris, Town Clerk
The reservoir covers 68 acres (28 ha), is 45 feet (14 m) deep when full and hods up to 193,000,000 imperial gallons (880,000,000 L). It was notably described in Whiteley Turner's 1913 book A Spring-Time Saunter: Round and About Bronte Land.