WATER CATCHMENT AREAS IN SCOTLAND 261 
Town Council have only control over the water rights, and 
do not own the catchment area, which is under sheep 
grazing, there being practically no trees. There is one 
small farm-steading and a shepherd’s hut on the area, 
but no special measures are taken to prevent contamina- 
tion of the water, which is not filtered, as the risk from 
these two buildings is very slight. Mr. D. A. Donald, the 
engineer in charge, is convinced of the desirability of Corpora- 
tions securing full ownership of water catchment areas. 
The Eastern District Committee of the Stirling County 
Council obtain their water supply from the Buckieburn 
reservoir in St. Ninian’s parish, with a catchment area of 
934 acres of hill pasture, partly peaty and partly loamy 
clay, at 800 to 1150 feet elevation. The gathering ground, 
which is without habitations, farm-steadings, or plantations, 
is not owned by the Committee. The water is filtered. 
The annual rainfall in the 10 years 1907-1916 varied 
from 49°08 to 67°11 inches. 
Lanarkshire Middle Ward District Waterworks supplies 
an area of 281 square miles, including 14 parishes, but 
excluding the burghs of Hamilton, Motherwell, Wishaw, 
Airdrie, and Coatbridge. There are three sources of supply: 
Glengavel reservoir, 8 miles south of Strathaven; Logan 
and Dunside reservoirs, 8 miles south-west of Lesmahagow 
on Logan Water; and the Camps area, 35 miles E.N.E. of 
Crawford village. The Camps area, 6800 acres, of which 
about 4400 acres are between 1500 and 2141 feet eleva- 
tion, 1200 acres between 1250 and 1500 feet, and 1200 
acres between 980 and 1250 feet, is all owned by the 
County Council, who are now carrying out a scheme of 
afforestation, involving ultimately the planting of 2426 
acres. See pp. 27-32 for full description. 
The other catchment areas—Glengavel gathering ground, 
3820 acres, between 839 and 1556 feet elevation, and the 
Logan and Dunside areas, 2200 acres, between 1018 and 
1712 feet—are privately owned, but the County Council 
control the full water rights. It is not proposed now to 
