Old Water Tower
Introduction
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Old Water Tower
Image: © P Flannagan Taken: 24 Feb 2008
Constructed by the former Portadown and Banbridge Regional Waterworks Board, formed in 1946, whose functions ceased with the re-organisation of local government in 1973. Portadown and Banbridge had been getting water from Fofany reservoir since 1906 and then Spelga reservoir, which was completed in 1957. Less than 15 years later, despite the protests of the Portadown people at the loss of their much-cherished pure Mourne water, the supply to Portadown was replaced by water from Lough Neagh. The Spelga water was diverted to Newry.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.362788
Longitude
-6.203603