Showing posts with the label Reservoir

Celles, The Village That Didn’t Drown

Mar 9, 2020

In the late 1950s, residents of Celles, a small village in the Salagou valley in southern France, received notices for evacuation. Their nei...

The Colossal Stepped Spillway of Robert-Bourassa Reservoir

Sep 8, 2014

The Robert-Bourassa Reservoir is located in northern Quebec, in Canada. It was created in the mid-1970s by impounding the La Grande River to...

The Whispering Wall of Barossa Reservoir

Feb 22, 2014

The Barossa Reservoir was built between 1899 and 1902 to supply water to town of Gawler and other northern country areas in South Australia....