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Re: Spare a thought for the residents of Toddbrook Reservoir
For those that are interested here's some of the background on this dam:
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Quote from New Civil Engineer:The dam construction comprises mainly boulder clay with sands and gravels. There is doubt about the existence of a puddle clay core even though it is shown on the original construction drawings. The dam is founded on fluvio-glacial sand and gravels, glacial till overlying a faulted sequence of mudstones, sandstones and shales of the Millstone Grit Series and Lower Coal Measures
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Full report on link above.
Remedial work was done on the dam's internal impervious layer in 1981.
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