Hamry Reservoir, reservoir in the Czech Republic
Hamry Reservoir is a large water body on the Chrudimka river in the Železné hory hills. The earthen dam stretches over 200 meters long and reaches nearly 18 meters high, with a calm, wide water surface reflecting the surrounding landscape.
Construction began in 1907 and ended in 1912, after the floods of 1880, 1883 and 1897 led Czech deputies to press the Austro-Hungarian government for retention reservoirs. It was the first dam on the Chrudimka, the oldest in the Pardubice region and the first earth-fill gravity dam in Czech territory. In the 1960s, when drinking water ran short around Hlinsko, it became a water-supply source and a treatment plant was built at Hamry.
The dam lies 2.6 km from Hlinsko's centre, near the bridge over the Chrudimka on road I/34. Since 1970 fishing and swimming have been banned, and entry and recreation are prohibited in the protection zone around this drinking-water source. A monitoring station below the dam records the Chrudimka's level and flow.
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