Crowdy Reservoir
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| Location | Cornwall |
| Coordinates | 50°37′20″N 4°37′20″W / 50.62222°N 4.62222°W |
| Type | reservoir |
| Basin countries | United Kingdom |
| Surface area | 115 acres (47 ha) |
| Average depth | 7.5 feet (2.3 m) |
Crowdy Reservoir is located on Bodmin Moor near Camelford in north Cornwall. 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.
The concrete dam was completed on Crowdy Marsh in 1973.
Crowdy Reservoir is a reservoir on the northern edge of Bodmin Moor Cornwall. It is mostly in the civil parish of Advent and icludes a small area in Davidstow parish. It is fed by run-off and drainage from surrounding moorland. The nearest town is Camelford 2 miles (3.2 km) to the east; Roughtor 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south; Davidstow Moor on the east shore and to the north is the former Davidstow Airfield now partially covered by a Forestry Commission plantation, Davidstow Woods. The eastern two-thirds is within the Bodmin Moor, North Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
Built on a marsh, the reservoir stiil retains a high degree of biological interest and there is a gradual transition from water to emergent vegetation with islets and peat. Cornwall's only major colony of black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) breeds here and a number wildfowl also breeds or overwinter here. Some of the species include, gadwall (Anas strepera), goldeneye (Bucephala clangula), goosander (Mergus merganser), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), common pochard (Aythya ferina), shoveler (Anas clypeata), teal (Anas crecca) and tufted duck (Aythya fuligula).
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