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Vartry Reservoir

County Wicklow, Ireland

Vartry Reservoir (Irish: Taiscumar Fheartraí) is a reservoir at Roundwood in County Wicklow, Ireland. The water is piped from Vartry to a large covered reservoir in Stillorgan in the southern suburbs of Dublin. The reservoir is operated by Irish Water. The original (lower) reservoir was completed in 1863 and has a capacity of 11.3 billion litres and a maximum depth of 18.3 metres. A second embankment, 3.5 km upstream, was completed in 1923 to form the upper reservoir. This has a capacity of 5.6 billion litres and a maximum depth of 13.4 metres.

Reservoir data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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