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Elan Valley: Welsh dams that helped save Birmingham turn 120

The four dams; Craig Goch, Garreg Ddu, Pen y Garreg and Caban Coch, were built by the Birmingham Corporation Water Department, starting in 1893.

The Elan Valley site was identified by Joseph Chamberlain, father of future-prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who was elected mayor of Birmingham in 1873.

“Birmingham was going through a huge industrial revolution, massive population boom but it doesn’t have any big rivers going into it,” explained Ms Newman.

“There were smaller rivers and they became polluted very quickly, so disease was rife; dysentery, diarrhoea, all the usuals.

“Joseph Chamberlain knew, to save his city, he needed to get clean water to it and very quickly.”


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