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Servo Motor &
Lifting Equipment
 
Intake Tower
 
Intake Gate
 
A ring drainage gallery collects and monitors any seepage through the lining of the reservoir.

Upper Reservoir

The Intake Tower

The process of Power Generation is started when the Intake Gate raises inside the Intake Tower to allow water to fall rapidly down through the Pressure Shaft below.

Upper Reservoir - Intake Tower
  • Releasing water from the Upper Reservoir

    The reservoir used in Turlough Hill works very much like the sink in your bathroom at home, except of course, it is on a much bigger scale. The "plug" at the bottom of the reservoir is known as the Intake Gate.

    When the lifting equipment pulls up the Intake Gate (similar to you pulling up the plug in your sink) the water starts to discharge from the reservoir. The water flows into the Pressure Shaft (which is simply a large pipe) and accelerates under the influence of gravity while travelling towards the Turbines that are housed in the cavern at the bottom of the hill.

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