Glen Finglas Dam And Hydro-Electric Power Station (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works)

Glen Finglas Dam and Hydro-Electric Power Station, formerly known as the Glasgow Corporation Water Works, was designed by consulting engineers Babtie, Shaw and Morton between 1963 and 1965. This gently curved concrete gravity dam stands 115 feet high and stretches 720 feet long, featuring a steeply battered southern side that curves to a vertical top. Atop the dam is a flat-roofed valve house with strip windows located east of the center. A walkway with a parapet and railings runs to the west of the valve house. To the east of the valve house is an overflow spillway, which has steep curved steps fanning out at the base to the far right, accompanied by a rubble wall. Below the valve house is a small, rubble-clad hydro-electric power generating house that includes a large picture window facing south, a two-leaf timber-boarded door to the west, a cantilevered balcony, and a very shallow pitched roof. There is an arched tunnel entrance to the dam located to the west of the hydro-electric power station. A low concrete weir leads to the outlet basin below the dam, and there is a circular-plan viewing platform with concrete steps situated to the west of the weir. A commemorative plaque can be found near the western end of the dam.