Aston Reservoir, sometimes known as Salford Lake, Salford Park Pool or Salford Bridge Reservoir, is a 19th-century reservoir, formerly used for drinking water extracted from the River Tame,The History of South Staffordshire Waterworks Company, 1853 - 1989 - Johann Van Leerzem, Brian Williams in Birmingham, England. It was built by the Birmingham Waterworks Company and was at that time situated in the parish of Aston. On 1 January 1876 the company was purchased by Birmingham Corporation Water Department.
It used to be a lake for boating more recently, but that is no longer the case. In the 1950s it was used for speedboat racing. The area around the reservoir is used as a park, Salford Park.
It has a capacity of behind an earthfill dam,Environment Agency public register of Large Raised Reservoirs, as at 2 November 2020, via and sits immediately adjacent to Gravelly Hill Interchange (a.k.a. Spaghetti Junction) of the M6 motorway and Aston Expressway, and in a bend of the river.
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External links Midland Hydroplane Meeting, 1952 (Pathé newsreel) CROWDS ENJOY WATER SPORTS AT BIRMINGHAM (1952) (british pathe)