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Gary is looking organising a dive at The Rez, a eeire pitch black building...this is what it says

The Rez was formerly a Severn Trent Water Authority Reservoir, which was an open water facility in the mid 1800's. There were two large pump houses on-site, which housed the steam beam engines that pumped the water from the bottom of the valley where the Rez is situated to the towns and villages of Stoke-on-Trent. With the progression to electric pumps, one pump house was demolished and a smaller building constructed in its place and the remaining large pump house was reduced by one storey. The chimney that used to tower a further sixty feet above the two buildings was demolished and buried in the bank-sides around the site.

The reservoir was given baffled walls made of engineering brick and a series of supporting columns throughout to support a new reinforced concrete roof. What is now the Dive House was the Gas House, where the chlorine and other water purification mixtures were added and the water quality monitored.

The buoyancy tank was the aeration tank for the reservoir. The two bottom layers have been removed and a fountain restored.

The water in the Rez is fresh water as the whole of Wall Grange is a clean water site due its environmentally sensitive location.

More pictures HERE