Lochaber District 1975-96

Lochaber (Scottish Gaelic, Loch Abar) refers to a large area of the central and western Scottish Highlands. From 1975 the name Lochaber applied to a local government district within the Highland Region, which also included the islands of Rum, Eigg, Muck and Canna. In 1996 administrative functions were taken over the Highland unitary council. (See: Subdivisions of Scotland) Lochaber District File links The following pages link to this file: Lochaber Categories: GFDL images ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... The Scottish Highlands are considered to be the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ... Highland is the name of the largest administrative region in Scotland. ... Rum is one of the Small Isles, part of the British Isles. ... Eigg is one of the Small Isles, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. ... Muck is the name of one of the Small Isles, part of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. ... This article is about the Scottish island of Canna. ... Highland is the name of the largest administrative region in Scotland. ... The council areas of Scotland form the local government areas of Scotland, all of them unitary authorities. ...

The Lochaber hydroelectric scheme was a power generation project constructed in the western Scottish Highlands after the First World War. Like its predecessor at Kinlochleven, it was intended to provide electricity for aluminium production, this time at Fort William, a little further north. The scheme was initially designed by engineer Charles Meik but after his death in 1923, the scheme’s realisation was left to William Halcrow, by then a partner in the firm originally founded by Meik’s father Thomas Meik. Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ... The Scottish Highlands are considered to be the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ... Missing image Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Kinlochleven is a village in Scotland and lies at the eastern end of Loch Leven, a sea loch cutting into the western Scottish Highlands. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13 (IIIA), 3, p Density, Hardness 2700 kg/m3, 2. ... Location within the British Isles. ... An engineer may be someone who practices the engineering profession, or the driver of a rail locomotive. ... Charles Meik (born? - 1923) was an English engineer and part of a minor engineering dynasty. ... Sir William Halcrow (July 1883 - 1958) was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the 20th century, particularly renowned for his expertise in the design of tunnels and for a host of wartime projects during the Second World War. ... Thomas Meik (20 January 1812 - 22 April 1896) was a British engineer, born in Duddingston, Midlothian. ...

The project was finally sanctioned by Parliament in 1921, but construction did not start until 1924; the aluminium smelter was established in 1929 and took about 95% of the 82,000kW of power generated.

The scheme harnessed the headwaters of the Rivers Treig and Spean and the floodwaters of the River Spey (plus a further eleven streams along the way). The Laggan Dam (213m long and 55m high) contained the flow of the Spean in a reservoir (Loch Laggan). A 4km tunnel then linked this body of water with another reservoir (Loch Treig) contained by the Treig dam. From here, the main tunnel, until 1970 the longest water-carrying tunnel in the world, an enormous 24km (15 miles) long and 5m in diameter, was driven through the Ben Nevis massif. From the western mountainside, down five massive steel pipes, the water rushed towards the turbines in the power house at the smelting plant. The River Spey is a river in Scotland that runs 107 miles (172 km) to the Moray Firth at Spey Bay, making it the second longest river in Scotland. ... Generally, a reservoir is something that can hold matter or energy. ... An underground pedestrian tunnel between buildings at MIT. Note the utility pipes running along the ceiling. ... Map sources for Ben Nevis at grid reference NN166713 Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. ...