WATER CATCHMENT AREAS 219 



Malvern Urban District Council obtains its water supply 

 in part from two gathering grounds : 



(1) Malvern Hill, north of Wyche Cutting, with three 

 small covered reservoirs, 300 acres, between 650 and 1300 

 feet elevation ; and (2) British Camp reservoir, with a 

 gathering ground of 177 acres, between 650 and 1000 feet 

 elevation. 



The areas, none of which are owned by the Council, are 

 all hill pasture, without habitations. The water is filtered. 



Full particulars of the Malvern water supply were 

 given by Mr. W. Osborne Thorp in Proc. Inst. Municipal 

 and County Engineers, vol. 35, p. 238 (1909). ■ 



Stratford-upon-Avon obtains its supply from the Snitter- 

 field reservoir, 3 miles distant, and at 296 feet altitude, to 

 which the water is conveyed by a conduit, |^ mile long, 

 from the Snitterfield brook. The water is filtered. The 

 Town Council purchased the Way field estate of 430 acres 

 in 1893 for £7546, and the Comyns Park estate of 292 

 acres in 1897 for £5440, making a total of 722 acres, 

 upon which the gathering ground of 490 acres is situated. 

 This consisted in 1918 of 58 acres of arable land, 422 

 acres of pasture, q,ud 10 acres of woodland. Its highest 

 point is 366 feet above sea-level, and the average annual 

 rainfall is 2 7 inches. " The ownership of the gathering 

 ground gives the Corporation full control over the method 

 of cultivation and manuring, and affords the greatest 

 security that can be looked for against contamination." 



Cheltenham obtains its water supply in part from the 

 Dowdeswell reservoir, on the river Chelt. with a catchment 

 area of 1430 acres in the Cots wold Hills, on which there 

 are habitations and farmsteads. None of the area belongs 

 to the Corporation. No precautions, other than sand 

 filtration, are taken with regard to purification, except that 

 a drainage system has been constructed for conveying the 

 sewage, etc., of all houses on the area to a point below the 

 reservoir. 



