[Closed] What's this then? (Pic)

Assault course for salmon?

Spawning ground for a freshwater sharknado.

Obviously a weir on the right and what looks like a lift for disabled salmon on the left.

Speed trap for whitewater canoeists

gauging station.

Baby Robin hotel and spa retreat.

Sophisticated beavers.

Sin bin for naughty water

MTB plunge pool

Swim-up bar with wifi

Designer tap

Phone charging station for walkers who use I-phones as gps rather than a map.

Training venue for an elite otter SWAT team

So far I'm liking phone charging station the best. I could see that working 🙂

More proof that STW really does have experts from every field.

Optimus Prime's new form

I used to commission the data logging kit for those. V-notch weir and a level recorder. So as jam bo said, it's a gauging station for recording the catchment volume.

Did WCA get a commission for an outdoor sexpool?

Designer tap

I stayed on a campsite by Trawsfynydd Reservoir years ago. It was pretty basic - on arrival the lovely old, nearly blind, farmer gave us 'a tour of the facilities'. The there was a single toilet in a tin hut - the roof had blown off a few days earlier. He also explained that 'we don't have any hot water.... but we do have two taps' and proudly pointed at a stream that has been diverted into two bits of plastic gutter.

So - its a V-notch weir and a level recorder..... with one tap.

I assumed it was something like that but oddly it was a good way up stream from the lowest point.

If you can't stop the flow out of the plastic gutter, it's zero taps...

The National Trust do have a small hydro station around there...

[url] https://ntenvironmentalwork.net/tag/dolwyddelan/ [/url]

Sophisticated beaver

Is that like what you find in Spearmint Rhino and such?

I'll get me coat.

It's a gauging station, a very ugly one and I'm surprised it's been built in such a location

It's for low flows, very low flows, I wonder who is interested in the readings?

... but oddly it was a good way up stream from the lowest point.

The sea?

There are similar sized equivalent set ups in various locations in the Derwent / Noe / Ashop / Jaggers catchments. They're used to understand and model the volume of water flowing into the 3 reservoirs either directly or upstream / downstream of the diversions. They're 'only' interested in the 'low' flow as (in this case, Severn Trent) have an obligation to to keep the water way above a minimum flow. So when a monitor station like this detects low flows, they'll get an alarm and decrease what is taken off down a diversion to keep the river/stream topped up. They aren't worried about knowing exact flow rates when they have medium to high to spaight levels as it's enough to not worry the EA or dry the river out.

As above, but specifically, it looks like a v-notch weir.

Hardcore Infinity Pool.

It is the pennstock for a small hydro sceme. If you look closely the front face of the wier is a metal mesh which is where the water flows into the system while debris and leaves get washed over it. The small amount of water flowing over the square guage part is to be sure the minimum amount of water is flowing down stream for environmental reasons

Flow meter, it looks like it's in the wrong place. I mean, the stream doesn't look wide enough for it to be constant.

Probs a Uni project from local Geo Students..

It is 100% the intake for a small hydro scheme, a bit [url= http://www.hydromatch-consulting.co.uk/tag/pelton/ ]like this one[/url]. I mistakenly called it a pennstock, it is the intake. Been a few years since I was quite heavily into the whole micro-hydro stuff and m,ixed my terms up in my head 🙂

Nice!

Great idea, looks a bit small though.