CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
"The North British Distillery in Gorgie took water near the railway tunnel at Meggetland. I don't think it still does."
Apparently still does!
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“There are three things I would say were important about the location of the distillery,” says managing director Alan Kilpatrick.
“Firstly the source of the water which comes from the Pentland Hills [via the Union Canal] and also being well served by the railway at the time was key.
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i wonder how water from the pentland hills gets into the union canal?
going the other way there is a big pipe at rose burn just after the bike chute that goes down rose burn cliff that often smells fragrantly of hops. i have always thought it was connected to fountain bridge. [as we know there was neither fountain nor bridge at fountain bridge, threads passim]
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the water level in the canal is maintained by a feeder system starting with a reservoir in the Pentland Hills to the south, but including a three mile channel from the River Almond at Mid Calder to the canal close to the Lin's Mill Aqueduct.
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Bit of a fountain -
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properties in Fountainbridge were affected when construction work led to the Union Canal being breached in 2002
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http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/3268/soe_river_flow_and_flooding.pdf
including a three mile channel from the River Almond at Mid Calder to the canal close to the Lin's Mill Aqueduct
The canal feeder starts opposite the East Calder water treatment works and (obviously) takes its water from the Almond. But it's Cobbinshaw that is the compensation reservoir. It feeds the Bog Burn, which becomes Murieston Water at Harburn, and which then feeds Linhouse Water at Midcalder, which immediately feeds the Almond.
Another classic 10 year old thread. (click to the first post/page)
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