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Bala Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (264 words) |
 | Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid in Welsh) was the largest natural body of water in Wales prior to the level being raised to help support the flow of the Llangollen Canal. |
| According to legend the lake is inhabited by a monster known affectionately as Teggie. |
| In the 1990s the lake suffered from blooms of blue-green algae which indicated a significant and worrying eutrophication of the lake. |
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| Bala is well known as a centre for watersports too, so people enjoy sailing, windsurfing and canoeing on the lake. |
| In its heyday it was carrying 130,000 tons of slate a year, but with the decline in the slate industry the railway closed in 1946, to be reopened in 1982 after painstaking rebuilding at the hands of the Ffestiniog Railway Society. |
| Built on the track bed of part of the 4ft-gauge Padarn Railway, it's working lifetime spanned more than a century, during which it carried slates away from the Dinorwig Quarries to the wharf at Y Felinhli on the shore of the Menai Strait. |
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