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Vartry Reservoir Taiscumar Fheartraí | |
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Location | County Wicklow |
Coordinates | 53°03′31″N 6°12′12″W / 53.05861°N 6.20333°W |
Type | reservoir |
Primary inflows | River Vartry |
Primary outflows | River Vartry |
Basin countries | Ireland |
Vartry Reservoir (Irish: Taiscumar Fheartraí) is a reservoir at Roundwood in County Wicklow, Ireland. The water is piped from Vartry to a large open service reservoir in Stillorgan in the southern suburbs of Dublin. The reservoir is operated by Irish Water.[1]
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.[1]