Carsington Reservoir Construction
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Carsington Water has been a very popular visitor attraction since the reservoir was opened in May 1992 by Her Majesty the Queen.

The reservoir is owned and operated by Severn Trent Water and exists to store water pumped from the River Derwent at times of high rainfall, to store the water and return it to the river when the river level would otherwise be too low to allow water extraction for treatment further downstream.

Factoids

• Opened by HM the Queen

• Ninth largest reservoir in the Country

• Capacity 7.8 billion gallons, enough to keep one person in water for over 500,000 years

• Half a million trees and shrubs have been planted around the reservoir