Loch Tarsan

Loch Tarsan
Location Glen Lean, Cowal, Scotland
Coordinates 56°00′13″N 5°05′46″W / 56.0037°N 5.0962°W / 56.0037; -5.0962Coordinates: 56°00′13″N 5°05′46″W / 56.0037°N 5.0962°W / 56.0037; -5.0962
Type Reservoir
Primary inflows Corrachaive Glen
Primary outflows Glentarsan Burn
Basin countries Scotland, United Kingdom
Surface area 1100000 sq. metres
Water volume 12500000 cubic metres
Surface elevation 121 metres

Loch Tarsan is an impounding reservoir located 13 kilometres north west of Dunoon and is a three-armed reservoir extending into both Glen Tarsan and Glen Lean. It supplies water to the Striven Hydro-Electric Scheme (also known as the Cowal Hydro-Electric Power Scheme). The larger of the two dams is 17.6 metres high and was completed in 1953.

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