Laggan Dam by sossy

Photography • Architecture • posted on Jan 20, 2014

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Description

Scotland, Highlands Laggan Dam is located on the River Spean south west of Loch Laggan in the Scottish Highlands. It is 700 feet (213 metres) long and rises 170 feet (52 metres) above its foundations, and is part of the Lochaber hydro-electric scheme. The structure was built for the British Aluminium Company and construction was finished in 1934. Water from the dam is conveyed to Loch Treig through 3 miles (4.8 km) of tunnel. From there, the waters are conveyed to a power house at Fort William via 15 feet (4.6 metre) diameter pipe 15 miles (24 km) long. The dam can be found next to the A86 road from Fort William. Thanks a lot for all welcome comments! ;o)

Comments (22)

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rainbows

4:20AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Great expanse of water, dear Rita. A wonderful capture. Hugs. Di. xx

BorisB

4:31AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Really impressive and wonderful reflections!!

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GiveMe

5:09AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Very nice photo. Great info.

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sharky_

5:12AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Wow! Forest is right next to the Dam... Colorful nature of trees.... Nice capture. Aloha

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giulband

6:03AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Very fine place and a great shot!

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dakotabluemoon

6:48AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

It must be so breathtaking to see all this beauty wonderful capture.

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choronr

9:58AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Excellent shot seeing the water movement; and, this surrounding landscape and bridge.

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bebopdlx

10:00AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Info, dam, photo, excellent !!!

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jayfar

10:10AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

This is a damn good shot Rita and some excellent info.

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VDH

10:35AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Nice view, great construction, excellent capture!

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illkirch

10:42AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Falls es nicht regnet haben die Reserven

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Leije

11:32AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Great perspective for this old dam and nice reflects, it's a beautiful place, excellent capture, Rita !

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Flint_Hawk Online Now!

11:33AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Fantastic capture!

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Jean_C

11:57AM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Superb place, this dam seems to be built with respect for environment, excellent phot, Rita!

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Celart

12:19PM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Fantastic

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mgtcs

1:50PM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Splendid landscape my friend, awesome lighting, loved your perspective, thank you for sharing this fantastic picture dear Rita!

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poet001

4:02PM | Mon, 20 January 2014

This is perfect Rita! I can't get over how beautiful this shot is! All of these definitely belong in one little photo album. Excellent!!!

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gordon3d

9:13PM | Mon, 20 January 2014

Lovely place. I remember taking photos going through the Laggan locks when we sailed the "Cally Canal" from Inverness to Fort William about 35 years ago. I still have the slides somewhere - it was a beautiful summer and the colours were beautiful.

whaleman

12:59AM | Tue, 21 January 2014

Excellent shot!

angora

2:09AM | Tue, 21 January 2014

gorgeous!! there must be a zillion trees :-) THX for the info!!

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