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Whiteadder Reservoir is a reservoir in the Lammermuir Hills, 11 miles (18 km) north west of Duns in the Scottish Borders, and five miles (8 km) south east of Garvald.
The reservoir was established in the late 1960s and the flooding ceremony was in May 1968.
The reservoir supplies East Lothian and Berwickshire, including Cockenzie Power Station on the northern coast of East Lothian, the Whiteadder Waterflows out of the reservoir and the lowest tributary of the River Tweed which it enters at Berwick-on-Tweed.
The dam: 89 feet (27 m) high, and 600 feet (180 m) thick at the base. Capacity: 1,750 million US gallons (6,600,000 m3) and the surface: 193 acres (0.78 km2)
- Type:
- Landmark