472 Afforestation of Catchment Areas, [nov., 



In the case of Cardiff it is not at present proposed to buy up 

 the catchment area proper, but some little of the area of 1,000 

 acres owned by the borough has been planted, and it has been 

 suggested, though nothing has yet been done, that a large pro- 

 portion of it should be planted. 



The municipalities in Scotland which have acquired the free- 

 hold or long leasehold of the catchment areas from which their 

 water supplies are derived are not numerous, but where they 

 have acquired an area of over 100 acres the particulars are 

 included in the following table : — 



County 

 in which Area 

 is situated 



Aberdeen 



Argyll 



Banff 



Berwick 



Dumbarton 



Fife 

 Perth 



Inverness 

 Kirkcud- 

 bright 

 Lanark 



Linlithgow 

 Peebles 

 Ross and 

 Cromarty 



Local 

 Authority. 



Turrift 



Dunoon 



Aberchirder 



Lauder 



Helens- 

 burgh 



Cupar 



Dunferm- 

 line 



Kingussie 



Kirkcud- 

 bright 



Middle 

 Ward 



Whitburn 



Edinburgh 



Tain 



2 p o 



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Description of Area. 



Area of Fr< 

 or Loi 

 Leasehold 



Range 

 of Altitude. 



Hill 

 Pas- 

 ture. 



Arable. 



Peat. 



Wood- 

 land. 



Acres. 



Feet. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



318 

 1,400 

 no 

 650 



243-540 

 200-1,600 

 720 



900 



1,400 



29 

 650 



305 

 81 





13 



] 850 



500-2,160 



850 









820 



528-800 



120 



670 





30 



j 1 >3°° 



900-2,000 



1,300 









300 



1,500 



300 









} 150 



150-350 





150 







] 404 



850-1,075 



404 









100 

 5,678 

 210 



600 

 950-2,625 

 1,000 



■ 



20 

 4,836 

 139 



80 



440 

 47 



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In the case of the Burgh of Dunfermline, it is observed that 

 " the drainage area is much too exposed for tree growing." 



The Corporation of Glasgow does not own any of the land in 

 the catchment areas, except the sites of reservoirs and accessories 

 to the waterworks. The right to take water from the lochs and 

 streams was acquired by various Acts of Parliament from 1846 

 to 1885. The feuing rights over the whole drainage area to Loch 

 Katrine were purchased by the Corporation and confirmed by an 

 Act in 1892. The catchment area of the Loch Katrine Water- 

 works amounts to 23,192 acres and of the Gorbals Waterworks to 

 2,750 acres. 



