WATER CATCHMENT AREAS IN SCOTLAND 279 
Dunfermline District is supplied with water from 4 catch- 
ment areas, the two largest of which, Glendevon, 5780 acres, 
and Glenquey, 1299 acres, are in the Ochil Hills. These 
two areas are divided according to elevation as follows: 
Glendevon. Glenquey. 
Above 1500 feet elevation . ; . 38052 acres. 454 acres, 
Between 1250 and 1500 feet elevation : ps (3s ee oi, 
+, 1000 and 1250 |, 43 : ; Bao yas BYE ae 
Under 1000 feet elevation . ; ; SLO ee. Dine: 
Total F . 5780 acres. 1299 acres. 
These areas are mainly rough grazing for sheep, with a 
little peat, and no arable land. The Dunfermline District 
Committee of the Fife County Council own none of the 
land except the sites of the reservoirs. No special precau- 
tions are taken against contamination from dead sheep or 
from disease among the sheep, the risk being considered 
negligible. The water is passed on to the consumer in its 
natural state, without being filtered. The Dunfermline 
District Committee supply the whole of the water required 
for Admiralty purposes at Rosyth. The Admiralty are said 
to be part-owners of the works at Glenquey and of the new 
reservoir which is being built at Frandy in Glendevon. 
Loch Glow reservoir has a catchment area of 650 acres, 
in the counties of Fife and Kinross, between 890 and 1103 
feet elevation. Cullaloe gathering ground, 70 acres, lies 
between 500 and 700 feet altitude. Both the Loch Glow 
and Cullaloe areas are under sheep grazing and uninhabited. 
The water from them is passed through sand filters. 
Dunfermline Town Council obtains its water supply in 
part from Glensherrup, in the Ochil Hills, with a catchment 
area of 1300 acres, between 935 and 2004 feet elevation. 
The gathering ground, of which 40 acres are owned by the 
town, is entirely hill pasture and moor, without any planta- 
tions, and free from habitations and farmsteads. “It has 
never been found necessary, in all the 35 years the works 
have been in operation, to take any precautions against 
contamination.” There is a secondary supply at Craigluscar, 
