Crowdy Reservoir is located on

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near Camelford in north

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. It is currently managed, jointly by the South West Lakes Trust and South West Water. There is public access to the reservoir away from the nature reserve. The reservoir supplies water to the North Cornwall water distribution network via treatment at the Lowermoor Water Treatment Works.

History

The concrete dam was completed on Crowdy Marsh in 1973.

Geography

Crowdy Reservoir is a reservoir on the northern edge of

Cornwall. It is mostly in the

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and includes a small area in Davidstow parish and is fed by run-off and drainage from the surrounding moorland. The nearest town is Camelford to the east; Roughtor is to the south; Davidstow Moor on the east shore and to the north is the former Davidstow Airfield now partially covered by a Forestry England plantation, Davidstow Woods. The eastern two-thirds is within the Bodmin Moor, North

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(SSSI). The reservoir provides water to parts of North Cornwall.

Natural history and ecology

Built on a marsh, the reservoir still retains a high degree of biological interest with a gradual transition from emergent vegetation with islets and peat to open water. Cornwall's only major colony of black-headed gull (''Chroicocephalus ridibundus'') breed here and a number wildfowl also breed or overwinter here. Some of the species include,

gadwall The gadwall (''Mareca strepera'') is a common and widespread dabbling duck in the family Anatidae. Taxonomy The gadwall was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. DNA studies have shown th ...

(''Anas strepera''),

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(''Bucephala clangula''), goosander (''Mergus merganser''),

mallard The mallard () or wild duck (''Anas platyrhynchos'') is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa. It has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Arge ...

(''Anas platyrhynchos''), common pochard (''Aythya ferina''), shoveller (''Anas clypeata''), teal (''Anas crecca'') and

tufted duck The tufted duck (or tufted pochard) (''Aythya fuligula'') is a small diving duck with a population of nearly one million birds, found in northern Eurasia. They are partially migratory. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek , an unide ...

(''Aythya fuligula'').

References

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Geography

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