WATEE CATCHMENT AKEAS IN SCOTLAND 279 



Dunfermline District is supplied with water froin 4 catch- 

 ment areas, the two largest of which, Glendevon, 5780 acres, 

 and Glenquey, 1299 acres, are in the Ochil Hills. These 

 two areas are divided according to elevation as follows : 



Above 1500 feet elevation . 



Between 1250 and 1500 feet elevation . 



1000 and 1250 , 

 Under 1000 feet elevation . 



Total 



These areas are mainly rough grazing for sheep, with a 

 little peat, and no arable land. The Dunfermline District 

 Committee of the Fife County Council own none of the 

 land except the sites of the reservoirs. No special precau- 

 tions are taken against contamination from dead sheep or 

 from disease among the sheep, the risk being considered 

 negligible. The water is passed on to the consumer in its 

 natural state, without being filtered. The Dunfermline 

 District Committee supply the whole of the water required 

 for Admiralty purposes at Rosyth. The Admiralty are said 

 to be part-owners of the works at Glenquey and of the new 

 reservoir which is being built at Erandy in Glendevon. 



Loch Glow reservoir has a catchment area of 650 acres, 

 in the counties of Fife and Kinross, between 890 and 1103 

 feet elevation. Cullaloe gathering ground, 70 acres, lies 

 between 500 and 700 feet altitude. Both the Loch Glow 

 and Cullaloe areas are under sheep grazing and uninhabited. 

 The water from them is passed through sand filters. 



Dunfermline Town Council obtains its water supply in 

 part from Glensherrup, in the Ochil Hills, with a catchment 

 area of 1300 acres, between 935 and 2004 feet elevation. 

 The gathering ground, of which 40 acres are owned by the 

 town, is entirely hill pasture and moor, without any planta- 

 tions, and free from habitations and farmsteads. " It has 

 never been found necessary, in all the 35 years the works 

 have been in operation, to take any precautions against 

 contamination." There is a secondary supply at Craigluscar, 



