Brookvale Park Lake Claimed

Brookvale Park Lake is a former drinking water reservoir in the Erdington area of Birmingham.

Two brooks, rising at Kingstanding and Bleak Hill, Erdington, respectively, feed first Witton Lakes, then overspill into Brookvale Park Lake, before reaching the River Tame, and ultimately the North Sea, via the Trent and Humber 

The brooks are natural and created at the end of the 19th century to supply drinking water for Birmingham.

They were then in the countryside, and the water relatively clean.

The City turned to the Elan Valley in Wales for a supply from October 1909 until 1926

The lakes and surrounding parkland are now maintained as a leisure amenity by Birmingham City Council.