WATER CATCHMENT AREAS IN SCOTLAND 269 
pp. 4-9 (1914), discusses the rainfall and gives maps, now 
reproduced, of the Glencorse and Talla areas. See also 
B. H. Blyth and W. A. Tait in Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh, xxv. 
616, with map (1905). 
Loanhead obtains its water supply from Hillend reservoir, 
which has a gathering ground of 50 acres, at 1200 feet 
elevation. The Town Council have also a good spring on 
Pentland Mains. 
Bo’ness obtains its water supply from two catchment 
areas situated about three miles south of the town. 
Locheote reservoir has a gathering ground of 600 acres, 
between 600 and 800 feet elevation, in the valley of the 
Brunton and Kipps burns (on the west side of the Kipps 
Hill) in Torphichen Parish, Linlithgowshire. Carribber 
reservoir has a gathering ground of 280 acres, between 
450 and 600 feet elevation, on the north-west side of 
Bowden Hill. Both areas are clean pasture land, without 
trees, the only habitation being Lochcote House, the 
drainage of which is intercepted and discharged into the 
stream below the reservoir embankment. The Town Council 
own the site of the Lochcote reservoir, about 54 acres; 
and hold on lease for 99 years the land at Carribber. The 
annual rainfall averages, over a period of 15 years, about 
34 inches. The water supply is filtered. 
The Linlithgow District Committee obtain their water 
supply from the Morton reservoir, which has a gathering 
ground of 500 acres of hill pasture, at 700 to 1500 feet 
elevation, situated between Morton and Corston farms, on 
the north side of the Pentland Hills. There are no farm- 
steadings or houses on the area, which is not owned by the 
County Council. There were 16 acres of Scots pine in 
1912. The average annual rainfall is 38°11 inches. 
Whitburn obtains its water supply from a gathering 
ground of 88 acres, between 600 and 620 feet elevation, 
comprising 40 acres of arable land and 48 acres of hill 
pasture. The water is not filtered. The statement in 
