taken 6 years ago, 3 km from Frongoch, Gwynedd, Wales
Reservoir
Llyn Celyn Straining tower. Normally the level of the water most times is usually three quarters way up the tower but the dry summer of 2018 has reduced the level of the water drastically as shown in the photo. It was at this point halfway along the dam that the former GWR branch ran between Bala and Blaenau Ffestiniog serving Capel Celyn Halt. In the Summer of 2018 the trackbed of the former railway line re appeared after 53 years.
Llyn Celyn is a large reservoir constructed between 1960 and 1965 in the valley of the River Tryweryn in Gwynedd, Wales. It measures roughly 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long by 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, and has a maximum depth of 140 ft (43 m). It has the capacity to hold 71,200,000 cubic metres (93,100,000 cu yd) of water. It was originally to be named Llyn Tryweryn Mawr (meaning "Great Tryweryn Lake"), but in September 1964 Liverpool Corporation agreed to the name change following a letter by the Tryweryn Defence Committee.
Construction of the reservoir involved flooding the village of Capel Celyn and adjacent farmland, a deeply controversial move. Much of the opposition was brought about because the village was a stronghold of Welsh culture and the Welsh language, whilst the reservoir was being built to supply Liverpool and parts of the Wirral peninsula with water, rather than Wales.
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