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Ben Crom Reservoir is a reservoir located in the Mourne Mountains near Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland. Along with Silent Valley Reservoir, which is situated further down the Kilkeel River valley, it supplies water for County Down, surrounding counties and most of Belfast. It was constructed between 1953 and 1957, as the final part of the Mourne scheme to provide water to Belfast which started with the passing of the Belfast Water Act in 1893. Ben Crom is a mass gravity dam, meaning it is made of concrete and designed so that the dam's own weight stabilises it against the force of the water. The middle of the structure consists of mass concrete with granite plumbs weighing up to 5 tonnes. The outer face of the dam was made with precast concrete blocks. The project cost approximately £1 million to build and employed 186 people.〔 In 2012 Northern Ireland Water carried out refurbishments at Ben Crom as part of a £1.6 million scheme to maintain and improve a number of reservoirs in Northern Ireland. File:Ben Crom Reservoir (detail) - geograph.org.uk - 640950.jpg|Ben Crom Reservoir Outflow at the bottom of the reservoir wall File:The Ben Crom Dam.jpg|The Ben Crom Dam. Behind the dam is the Ben Crom Reservoir with a capacity of 1,700,000,000 gallons. The hill in the background is also known as Ben Crom File:Ben Crom Dam Wall.jpg|View of the dam wall at the Ben Crom Reservoir ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Crom Reservoir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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