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side of Skiddaw, with an intake at Chapelhouse. . The area, 

 which consists of bare sheep-runs, does not belong to the 

 Board, who have only rights of diverting and impounding 

 water. 



Workington, which gives a supply in bulk to Cocker- 

 mouth, obtains its water from Crummock Lake, with a catch- 

 ment area of 16,000 acres, situated between 323 and 2791 

 feet elevation, of which the Town Council own only 307 

 acres. The watershed is mostly mountain or moorland of a 

 rocky nature, with very few buildings and little arable land. 

 On the lower part of the watershed, from which compensa- 

 tion water is taken, there are more farmsteads and arable 

 land. Close to the lake there are no buildings, and practic- 

 ally no contamination occurs, as is proved by chemical and 

 bacteriological examination. The water is not filtered, but 

 is simply passed through copper screens at the intake. 



Whitehaven obtains its water supply from Ennerdale 

 Lake, with a catchment area of 10,000 acres, situated be- 

 tween 369 and 2900 feet elevation, and comprising 480 

 acres of arable land (including 380 acres of meadow and 

 pasture), 9420 acres of hill grazing and moorland, and 

 100 acres of plantations. The Corporation own ^ acre 

 only. There are ten habitations on the area, nine of which 

 are at such a distance from the lake that they are not likely 

 to cause any contamination. In the case of the only one 

 built on the margin of the lake, the sewage is treated. The 

 supply, which is not filtered, is said to be one of the softest 

 and purest in Britain, being equalled only by that of Loch 

 Katrine. 



Cleator Moor Urban District Council obtains its water 

 supply from Meadley reservoir, Kinneside, with a catchment 

 area of 600 acres on Cleator, Kinneside, and Ennerdale Fells, 

 between 500 and 1200 feet elevation, all hill pasture and 

 moorland, without any arable land or plantations. The 

 gathering ground, of which 26 acres are owned by the 

 Council, has no habitations or farm steadings upon it. The 



