Mill Dam, Shapinsay

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Mill Dam wetlands. Courtesy of the image author: C. Michael Hogan
Mill Dam wetlands. Courtesy of the image author: C. Michael Hogan

Mill Dam, Shapinsay is a wetland in western Shapinsay, Orkney Islands. (Ordnance, 2002) This water body was not shown on the 1840 survey map of the island, since it is a man-made creation from a damming in the 1880s. (Masters, 1840) Mill Dam is fed by a stream flowing from the north that rises on the western lobe of Shapinsey. Ph levels of the outflow stream of Mill Dam are moderately alkaline, in the range of 9.18. (Hogan, 2006) The Mill Dam wetland is a significant bird habitat and is owned and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

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  • Ordnance Survey Map, Landranger, United Kingdom, 1:50,000 (2002)
  • G.T, Masters, Orkney, Approaches to Kirkwall, HMS official survey map, 1840-1843
  • C.M Hogan, Natural History of the Orkney Islands (2006)

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