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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21404, 21 February 1935, Page 9

Because of the widespread interest taken in the unique structural features of the Hamilton water reservoir, it was decided at a meeting of the Borough Council last week to place a tablet on the structure, giving the date of completion and the names of the designers and the contractor. The reservoir, which is situated on the top of a hill overlooking the Hamilton Lake, has a storage capacity of 2,600,000 gallons, with 85ft depth of water. Practically the whole of the structure is above ground-level, the reservoir being one of the largest of this type in the world. The whole of the supporting structure was electrically welded, and the walls are ; eparate from the floor, but connected by a moving expansion joint. In 1933 a paper describing the features of the reservoir was read to the International Congress of Bridge and Structural Engineers, at Paris. A description of the structure also appeared in a wellknown English engineering journal. The reservoir was designed by the Hamilton borough engineer, Mr R. Worley, and his assistant, Mr J. R. Baird. Mr Worley supervised the construction.