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Summer 2002 No 44 Newsletter Rivelin Valley Conservation Group Winter 2014 no 89 WE WISH ALL OF OUR MEMBERS A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR Through The Chair Chairman Graham Appleby 01142660203 Task Force Coordinator Keith Kendall 01142307144 I hope you all had a wonderful Membership/Newsletter M Sanderson 01142306790 Xmas. We’re all still waiting for the snow Treasurer David Lyon 01142302660 Group Recorder Joan Buckland 01142305829 to fall and no doubt it will arrive at a very Events Janet Bowring 01142307570 inconvenient time for us all. Although with Mail to : [email protected] all the rain we have experienced maybe it’s Web: www.rivelinvalley.org.uk a good job it didn’t fall as snow otherwise we would have been buried under some very deep drifts. Hope you all had a RVCG Membership chance to join in the recent garden watch. Your membership for 2014 is now due. It wasn’t a particularly good weekend and Please renew as soon as possible. It saves all my regular garden visitors were no- our volunteers from sending out reminders where to be seen and I could only report a in the next newsletter also sometimes few sparrows. people who renew late in the year think On New Year’s Eve, Keith Kendall our they have renewed for the following year! task team leader received a phone call Please use the enclosed form. about a hole in the path around Hind It is important that we keep up to date with Wheel. He went down to investigate and your details - change of address etc. decided it was too dangerous to leave. If you were a new member, joining after Unable to contact any task team members, 30th September 2013, then you are also a he used 12 bags of rubble and 3 bags of member for this year. cement to repair the damage. Keith later We are still very cheap – only £3 per received an accolade from Amey, the SCC household for a year. contractor for his quick response and quality of repair. I understand Amey has since repaired a second hole in the same Donations vicinity which is a worrying trend and a Thanks for your generous help in keeping concern for the life of the dam. our work going. For anyone attending my recent Since the last newsletter we have had presentation on Bees, the word to describe donations from Allen, Atter, Bruce, Hague, heather honey is ‘thixotropic’. It’s normally Mason and Sharpe. a jelly like state but turns to liquid when Donations last year amounted to over £900 agitated. A few requested more on honey for which we are very grateful and helps to bees which I am planning for the autumn. maintain our work in the valley. There We still require a speaker organiser might be many more collapsing footpaths, for our open meetings. Please contact me if leaking dams and vegetation blocked paths you are able to help. I look forward to without your help and the labour of our meeting you at our future events. unsung heroes - the Task Force. Graham Appleby RVCG Chairman Page 1 of 6 Rivelin Tunnel the order of 2.5mgd (million gallons per Following the takeover of the Sheffield day) but over the years as more water Water Company by Sheffield Council in became available from the Derwent Valley 1888, it became apparent that new sources the flow eventually reached 12.5 mgd plus of water were needed to meet the growing an additional 0.5 mgd of infiltration water demand for water. This was due to both the in wet weather giving a maximum flow of increasing population and a general 13mgd (59 tcmd). The flows are regulated increase in water usage. In 1898 the throughout the year dependant on the council promoted a bill through Parliament overall stock situation in the Derwent to utilise the watershed of the River Valley Reservoirs which are now operated Derwent above Bamford for water supply in by Severn Trent Water Plc. an attempt to meet this demand. The Bamford end of the tunnel is not The bill however was in competition with accessible to the public but the portal and similar bills from the Corporations of Derby gate at the Sheffield end can be viewed and Leicester and petitions from from the Wyming Brook Drive adjacent to Nottingham and Derbyshire County Council the point of discharge of the Wyming Brook for a share of the water. A compromise was into the Rivelin Lower Reservoir. Surplus eventually agreed to jointly form the water can be seen discharging from the Derwent Valley Waterboard (DVWB) to tank into the reservoir down the overflow develop the resources. Sheffield was weir. enti tled to 25% of the available supply with A few years ago the tunnel gates were Rotherham having an entitlement of 1/6 of stolen but fortunately were spotted by a Sheffield supply. local Yorkshire Water employee for sale in Whilst Howden and Derwent dams were a second hand shop in Sheffield. They were being constructed a tunnel was driven from recovered and reinstalled at the tunnel Bamford to Rivelin under the Bamford Edge entrance. to enable Sheffield to take its entitlement of In the 1960’s due to deterioration in water water. The tunnel runs from Bamford, near quality, the lower reservoir was adapted for the Ladybower Fish Farm and finishes at pre-treatment sedimentation of the DVWB the Rivelin Lower Reservoir. water and the filter station was supplied The tunnel through the Millstone grit rock from draw-offs located along the reservoir and shale is 4.5 miles (7.2km) long with a embankment. Following the rebuilding of gradient towards Rivelin of 1 in 3,600. It is the treatment works in the late 1990’s the 6ft (1.8m) wide and 6ft 6in (1.98m) high water can now be drawn from both the partly brick with cement lining where original tank and the later draw-offs. Most necessary. It was driven from both ends of the water, after treatment, is used for with no shafts using electrical power for drinking water supplies but a portion is drilling and ventilation. It was completed in used to maintain the compensation flow in 1910 in time for the completion of Howden the River Rivelin. Reservo ir in 1912 and was the longest D K Lyon tunnel in the country for water supply. The cost was £135,000 some £13,000 under Wanted budget. RVCG members usually come up with help The water was piped from the Howden and when we need it. Janet Bowring will be retiring later the Derwent Dam to the start of the from her RVCG work soon and so now we will tunnel and at the Sheffield end a tank was have a vacancy for the jobs she does. We need someone to arrange speakers for constructed adjacent to the Rivelin Lower RVCG Open Meetings and for information on our Reservoir. The water flowed under gravity activities to be sent to the press. Some Open into the tank and then from the tank to the Meetings are already arranged for this year. original Rivelin Filter Station via a 24 inch Perhaps there are two of you who would like to water main. share this job. If you are interested Janet Bowring or Graham On completion of Howden Reservoir the Appleby will be willing to talk to you and give initial flow through the tunnel was only of more information. (See contact list) Page 2 of 6 100th Anniversary of King Edward’s Task Force News Hospital 27th October 2013 Despite experiencing aching limbs, Rivelin Reminiscences of the old King Edward’s mud, near drowning and wonky knees the Hospital in the newsletter led to interest Task Team plods on. from Jean Bruce, an RVCG member. She Recently trees have been planted in hosted a reunion in its imposing entrance Walkley Bank, Carver Fields and Rails hall of those with associations there before Road, thanks to a donation. More will be it was turned into residences. Several ex planted on the next Task Day. These nurses were reunited and enjoyed seeing consist of white, goat and crack willow, the many old photographs Jean had also crab apple, rowan, English oak, collected. Thank you to those who provided hornbeam and hazel. refreshments. Best wishes to Keith for a speedy recovery Some of you may remember in our early and back to full force. days the fight to stop this building Contact Keith if you would like to join the becoming a secure unit in the prison Task Team. service. A huge, factory like building was Open Meeting Steve Drinkall - Images of Wildlife and also going to be added in the grounds and Wild Places 12th November 2013 so a neighbouring farm made a scaffolding mock up of its size in a field to show what We saw wildlife photographs taken in an impact this would have on our valley. Scotland and its islands by Steve (once an It’s good to know that this wonderful engineer at Laycocks). historic hospital has been put to new use The white tailed sea eagle with its 8ft wing and appreciated by its residents. span is the biggest bird in the British Isles I would still be interested if anyone has now reintroduced from Norway because of stories about Rivelin’s hospitals, especially extinction by egg collectors and shooting the Crimicar Lane Hospital that dealt with by gamekeepers in Scotland. infectious diseases. There was the wonderful curlew with its M Sanderson curved beak and plaintive call, the colourful oyster catcher that doesn’t eat oysters and Do come to our Open Meetings the red deer fighting for a hind.
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