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anticipated, as both Ogden and Mixenden reservoirs, though 

 situated at nearly 1000 feet e;levation, lie in well-sheltered 

 valleys. I have not been able to obtain any report on 

 these plantations, as, for some reason or another, little 

 interest has been taken in afforestation by the Halifax 

 Corporation. No forester is employed. See Trans. Roy. 

 Scot. Arhor. Sac. xvii. pp. 86-92 (1904), for reports on 

 the afforestation of the Halifax areas. 



Todmorden obtains its water supply from Gorpley Clough 

 reservoir, with a gathering ground on Inchfield Moor of 

 690 acres, between 845 and 1500 feet elevation. The 

 whole area, of which about 600 acres are owned by the 

 Corporation, is hill pasture and moor, without any planta- 

 tions or arable land, and free from farmsteads or habitations, 

 except the waterman's house. The water is filtered, and no 

 other precautions are considered necessary. See Trans. 

 Liverpool Engineering Sac. xxix. (1908). 



Morley obtains its water supply in part from Witheus 

 reservoir in Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd, with a gathering 

 ground of 1200 acres, between 900 and 1000 feet elevation, 

 all hill pasture and moorland ; and no part of it is owned 

 by the Corporation. The area is without habitations or 

 farmsteads, except a gamekeeper's lodge, uninhabited at 

 present. The water is filtered, and no other precautions 

 are considered necessary. 



Wakefield obtains its water supply from a gathering 

 ground of 2737 acres, between 1000 and 1530 feet 

 elevation, with two reservoirs. Green Withers at Rishworth, 

 and Ringstone at Barkisland. The Ardsley reservoir, also 

 used for storage, is not on the catchment area. The 

 Corporation have power to utilise a further area of 600 

 acres, all moorland and lying between 900 and 1200 feet, 

 and to construct thereon three additional (Oxygrains, 

 Upper and Lower Booth Dean) reservoirs. The gathering 

 ground of 2737 acres to the existing works, is all moorland, 

 with the exception of about 250 acres of rough grass ; and 

 most of it is covered with peat varying in depth from one 



