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the town, and three hundred and seventy feet above the sea level. 
The water is but slightly filtered through a rough gravel medium. 
The underlying and exposed rocks of the gathering ground are, 
syenitic granite, Skiddaw Slate (Lower Silurian), and the Borrow- 
dale Series of volcanic rocks. About one-tenth of the gathering 
ground is partially cultivated; the rest is mountain pasture, and 
bare rocks. 
WoRKINGTON AND COCKERMOUTH.—The Crummock Water 
scheme has been carried out, to supply the towns of Workington 
and Cockermouth, and a large district, embracing four different 
local authorities, namely :—(1) The Cockermouth Urban District, 
(2) The Workington Urban District, (3) The Rural Sanitary 
Authority’s District of the Cockermouth Union, and (4) A portion 
of the Rural Sanitary Authority’s District of the Whitehaven 
Union, including the parishes of Distington and Harrington, the 
water being brought as far as Lowca, near Whitehaven—a distance 
of twenty-three miles from the lake, by way of Cockermouth and 
Stainburn. 
Crummock Lake, from which the water is taken, is the lowest 
of a chain of lakes, comprising Buttermere, Loweswater, and 
Crummock. It is three hundred and twenty feet above the sea 
level. The gathering ground is mostly composed of the highest 
mountains, of which about nineteen-twentieths is mountain pasture | 
and woodland, and one-twentieth arable and meadow land. The 
underlying rocks are, like the Ennerdale valley, chiefly Skiddaw 
Slate, the Borrowdale Series of volcanic rocks, and syenitic granite. 
The water is neither filtered nor screened. The sample for analysis 
was collected at Workington. 
Maryvport.—This supply is pumped up from the river Derwent, 
at the Goat Mill, near Cockermouth. It is lifted two hundred 
and twenty feet into filtering beds, near Bridekirk, passed through 
ordinary sand filters, and then conveyed, by gravitation, eight 
miles to Maryport, the service reservoir being at Hayborough. 
The outside parishes of Flimby, Ellenborough, and Dearham, 
are also supplied with this water, The river Derwent drains the 
