WATER CATCHMENT AREAS IN SCOTLAND 269 



pp. 4-9 (1914), discusses the rainfall and gives maps, now 

 reproduced, of the Glencorse and Talla areas. See also 

 B. H. Blyth and W. A. Tait in Ptoc. R. Soc. Edinhurgh, xxv. 

 616, with map (1905). 



Loanhead obtains its water supply from Hillend reservoir, 

 which has a gathering ground of 50 acres, at 1200 feet 

 elevation. The Town Council have also a good spring on 

 Pentland Mains. 



Bo'ness obtains its water supply from two catchment 

 areas situated about three miles south of the town. 

 Lochcote reservoir has a gathering groiind of 600 acres, 

 between 600 and 800 feet elevation, in the valley of the 

 Brunton and Kipps burns (on the west side of the Kipps 

 Hill) in Torphichen Parish, Linlithgowshire. Carribber 

 reservoir has a gathering ground of 280 acres, between 

 450 and 600 feet elevation, on the north-west side of 

 Bowden Hill. Both areas are clean pasture land, without 

 trees, the only habitation being Lochcote House, the 

 drainage of which is intercepted and discharged into the 

 stream below the reservoir embankment. The Town Council 

 own the site of the Lochcote reservoir, about 54 acres ; 

 and hold on lease for 99 years the land at Carribber. The 

 annual rainfall averages, over a period of 15 years, about 

 34 inches. The water supply is filtered. 



The Linlithgow District Committee obtain their water 

 supply from the Morton reservoir, which has a gathering 

 ground of 500 acres of hill pasture, at 700 to 1500 feet 

 elevation, situated between Morton and Corston farms, on 

 the north side of the Pentland Hills. There are no farm- 

 steadings or houses on the area, which is not owned by the 

 County Council. There were 16 acres of Scots pine in 

 1912. The average annual rainfall is 38*11 inches. 



Whitburn obtains its water supply from a gathering 

 ground of 88 acres, between 600 and 620 feet elevation, 

 comprising 40 acres of arable land and 48 acres of hill 

 pasture. The water is not filtered. The statement in 



