280 FORESTS, WOODS, AND TREES 
three miles from Dunfermline, with a catchment area of 
360 acres, situated between 300 and 600 feet elevation. 
Fully a half of this is arable land. A further but very 
small supply is taken from shallow ground springs at 
Glassiebarns. 
Crieff obtains its water supply in part from Loch Turret, 
which has a catchment area of 3855 acres, between 1127 
and 3048 feet elevation, none of which is owned by the 
town. ‘The whole area, except 165 acres covered by the 
loch, is hill pasture, and has two shepherds’ cottages and 
one shooting lodge upon it. 
The Blairgowrie, Rattray, and District Water Board 
obtain their supply from Loch Benachally. The catchment 
area, 1920 acres, between 1000 and 1622 feet elevation, 
is not owned by the Board, who control enly the water 
rights. As there are no farm-steadings or habitations on 
the area, which is devoted to sheep grazing and grouse 
shooting, no measures are considered necessary against 
pollution of the water, which is passed through fine screens 
on leaving the loch, and through sand filters before reaching 
the storage tanks at Blairgowrie. 
Arbroath obtains its water supply direct from the river 
Noran at Glenogil, Forfarshire. The catchment area above 
the compensation reservoir is 4700 acres, and above the 
intake for use 3600 acres, all moorland, between 700 and 
900 feet altitude, of which three-fourths are covered with 
larch and Scots pine plantations. There is only one 
habitation, a shepherd’s hut, the drainage from which flows 
into another valley. The Town Council own merely the 
site of the reservoir and intake works, 304 acres, purchased 
for £3665. The water comes from pure mountain springs, 
and is passed through copper wire-woven screens, but is 
not otherwise filtered. The annual rainfall averages 
35 inches. 
Kirriemuir obtains its water supply from a catchment 
area of 820 acres, at 950 to 2197 feet altitude, on the 
