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hydroelectric scheme, Docker Nook
site name:-   Dockernook Gill
locality:-   Docker Nook
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hydroelectric scheme
coordinates:-   NY50490126
1Km square:-   NY5001
10Km square:-   NY50


photograph
BVM56.jpg  Plant.
(taken 10.10.2011)  courtesy of Mark Cropper
photograph
BVM57.jpg  Turbine, made by Gilkes
(taken 10.10.2011)  courtesy of Mark Cropper


photograph
CBC30.jpg  Water intake.
(taken 11.7.2014)  
5 minutes later a JCB had delivered a scoop of concrete and lifted the large boulder in the stream onto it, on the bank on the far side of the dam. Presumably water had been 'escaping'.


photograph
BVM58.jpg  Computer, and weather station monitor.
(taken 10.10.2011)  courtesy of Mark Cropper

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