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only the sites of the reservoirs, for which an annual payment 

 is made. The proprietors of the land have recently done a 

 little planting of trees. The annual rainfall averages 

 31*30 inches for Thorter and 34*40 inches for Donolly. 

 The Donolly reservoir obtains its supply, not from the 

 Donolly stream, which proved unsuitable, but from the 

 adjacent Papana stream. 



Duns obtains its water supply from a reservoir on 

 Hardens Hill, with a gathering ground of 361 acres, 

 between 557 and 1166 feet elevation. The area, only 

 4 acres of which are owned by the Corporation, is without 

 habitations, and comprises 65 acres of arable land, 240 

 acres of hill pasture, and 56 acres of plantations. The 

 water is filtered. 



Lauder is reported in Journ. Board of Agriculture, xi. 

 472 (1904), to own a catchment area of 650 acres, hill 

 pasture, at 900 feet elevation. Information about this 

 water supply has not been obtainable. 



Galashiels obtains its water supply from the Caddon 

 Water valley, with a catchment area of 4160 acres, at 800 

 to 2160 feet elevation, mostly moorland and grazed by a 

 few sheep. The Town Council do not own the area, but 

 have the water rights. 



Hawick water supply is obtained from hill pasture lands 

 to the south-west of the town. The main supply is from 

 the Dod Burn, about 6 miles off, with a catchment area of 

 1280 acres at 700 to 1500 feet elevation, and the water is 

 stored in Acre Knowe reservoir, at 610 feet elevation. 

 Another supply is taken direct from the Allan Water at 

 Lodburn, about 5 miles away. There is a population 

 of 20 persons on the catchment areas, which are not 

 owned by the Town Council. The land is hill pasture 

 grazed by sheep, except 20 acres arable. None of the 

 water is filtered, and complaints are sometimes made 

 in summer about its fishy taste. This is due to a weed 

 which grows in the Acre Knowe reservoir. The water 



