Bitumenous grouting to repair and protect the reservoir supplying Scotland’s capital city with water
Bitumenous grouting to repair and protect the reservoir supplying Scotland’s capital city with water
2 PagesCASE STUDY: MEGGET RESERVOIR The Megget reservoir, in the Borders region of Scotland, holds 64,000 mega litres of water to supply the city of Edinburgh and its 450,000 residents. It supplies 100 million litres of water daily. In the first project of its kind in the world, bitumenous grouting was used to repair and reinforce protection for a reservoir embankment. The 56m high by 570m long dam is a gravel filled embankment with a central a
