232 FORESTS, WOODS, AND TREES 
25 and 52 feet elevation. The Company own only a 
small strip on the margin of the lake and the site of the 
pumping and filtration works. Both mechanical and sand 
filters are used. 
Carnarvon obtains its water supply from an intake at 
Nant Mill, half a mile below Quellyn Lake, with a gather- 
ing eround of about 5120 acres, between 453 anal 3500 
feet elevation (Snowdon). The Corporation own only the 
site of the intake. The land, on which there are no planta- 
tions, is entirely hill pasture, except a very small amount of 
arable land. The scavenging of the village of Rhyd-ddu 
on the area, which has a considerable population (200 
persons), is carried out under the supervision of the Rhyd- 
ddu Joint Sanitary Committee to the satisfaction of the 
Local Government Board. 
Bangor obtains its water supply from an intake on the 
river Llafar in Llanllechid, at 1300 feet elevation, with a 
catchment area of 1100 acres, extending up to Carnedd 
Llewellyn, 3484 feet elevation. The gathering ground, 
which is not owned by the Corporation, is without faba 
tions, habitations, or farmsteads, and is used only for sheep 
erazing. The water is not filtered. 
Llanfairfechan Urban District Council obtains its water 
supply from a storage reservoir at Camarnaint, with an 
intake from the Glan y Sais stream, and a gathering ground 
of 393 acres, between 1100 and 2000 feet elevation. The 
area, which is common land belonging to the Crown, is 
entirely hill pasture, used for grazing sheep and ponies 
only, and is without plantations. The water is not filtered. 
When sheep or ponies die on the gathering ground they are 
immediately buried. 
Penmaenmawr Urban District Council obtains its water 
supply from an upland surface at Tan y Fan, reported 
in Journ. Board of Agriculture, xi. 471 (1904), to be 
832 acres of hill pasture, between 1000 and 2000 feet eleva- 
tion, all owned by the Council. The water is not filtered. 
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