174 FORESTS, WOODS, AND TREES 
side of Skiddaw, with an intake at Chapelhouse. The area, 
which consists of bare sheep-runs, does not belong to the 
Board, who have only rights of diverting and impounding 
water. 
Workington, which gives a supply in bulk to Cocker- 
mouth, obtains its water from Crummock Lake, with a catch- 
ment area of 16,000 acres, situated between 323 and 2791 
feet elevation, of which the Town Council own only 307 
acres. The watershed is mostly mountain or moorland of a 
rocky nature, with very few buildings and little arable land. 
On the lower part of the watershed, from which compensa- 
tion water is taken, there are more farmsteads and arable 
land. Close to the lake there are no buildings, and practic- 
ally no contamination occurs, as is proved by chemical and 
bacteriological examination. The water is not filtered, but 
is simply passed through copper screens at the intake. 
Whitehaven obtains its water supply from Ennerdale 
Lake, with a catchment area of 10,000 acres, situated be- 
tween 369 and 2900 feet elevation, and comprising 480 
acres of arable land (including 380 acres of meadow and 
pasture), 9420 acres of hill grazing and moorland, and 
100 acres of plantations. The Corporation own + acre 
only. There are ten habitations on the area, nine of which 
are at such a distance from the lake that they are not likely 
to cause any contamination. In the case of the only one 
built on the margin of the lake, the sewage is treated. The 
supply, which is not filtered, is said to be one of the softest 
and purest in Britain, being equalled only by that of Loch 
Katrine. 
Cleator Moor Urban District Council obtains its water 
supply from Meadley reservoir, Kinneside, with a catchment 
area of 600 acres on Cleator, Kinneside, and Ennerdale Fells, 
between 500 and 1200 feet elevation, all hill pasture and 
moorland, without any arable land or plantations. The 
gathering ground, of which 26 acres are owned by the 
Council, has no habitations or farm steadings upon it. The 
