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Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 is a historic cemetery in the Garden District neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.Founded in 1833 and still in use today, the cemetery takes its name from its location in what was once the City of Lafayette, a suburb of New Orleans that was annexed by the larger metropolis in 1852.
Reservoir (/ ˈ r ɛ z ə v (w) ɔː / ⓘ REZ-ə-v(w)aw) [2] is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km (7.5 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Darebin local government area.
Ogston Reservoir is a reservoir operated by Severn Trent Water in Derbyshire.It is near the villages of Brackenfield and Ashover and the town of Clay Cross.. The reservoir takes its water from the River Amber and was originally created to supply the National Coal Board's Carbonisation Plant at Wingerworth; the reservoir now supplies water for the local area and is used as a holding ground for ...
Toddbrook Reservoir, a feeder for the Peak Forest Canal, opened in 1838. [3] It is above the town of Whaley Bridge in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, England. The reservoir is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) providing habitats for herons, ducks and other animals and fish, while rare mosses and liverworts grow on its shores, particularly short-lived species that grow on ...
The Wachusett Reservoir is the second largest body of water in the state of Massachusetts.It is located in central Massachusetts, northeast of Worcester.It is part of the water supply system for metropolitan Boston maintained by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority ().
Lewisville Lake, formerly known as Garza-Little Elm Reservoir, is a reservoir in North Texas on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Denton County near Lewisville. Originally engineered in 1927 as Lake Dallas, the reservoir was expanded in the 1940s and 1950s and renamed Lewisville Lake.
The 70,000-acre-foot (86,000,000 m 3) Englebright Reservoir provides water-based recreational benefits to the region and provides 45,000 acre-feet (56,000,000 m 3) of stored water-right capacity, which is released each year through dam operations to benefit fish downstream. Water is also diverted for regional domestic and agricultural uses.
Grimwith (pronounced Grim'ath) [2] is accessed from the B6265 road 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Hebden and 8 miles (13 km) west of Pateley Bridge.With a surface area of 1.47 square kilometres (0.57 sq mi) and holding 21,772,000 cubic metres (4.789 × 10 9 imp gal) of water it is Yorkshire Water's largest reservoir.