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Loch Vrotachan
Water body ID 21989
Loch Vrotachan is a very small freshwater lake located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is generally shallow with medium alkalinity and is situated at mid altitude.
| Surface area | 9 ha |
| Mean depth [i] | 6.9 m |
| Catchment area | 67 ha |
| Grid reference | NO12237854 |
| Elevation | 748 m A.O.D. |
| Perimeter length | 1 km |
| Shoreline development index [?] | 1.29 |
| Fetch distance [?] | 0.53 km |
| Distance to sea [?] | 51.85 km |
| Water body volume [?] | 642076 m3 |
| Catchment-to-lake ratio [?] | 7.2 |
| Elevation type | Mid elevation |
| Size type | Very small |
| Depth type | Shallow |
| Geology type | Moderate alkalinity |
| Humic type | Unavailable (no data) |
| Mean conductivity | 220 µS/cm |
The following connectivity metrics are preliminary results from the NERC Hydroscape project and show a small sample of the data created for analysing the connectedness of lakes. As well as the hydrological catchment, various buffers were created outwards from the lake outline — the largest (2km) is shown below.
| Catchment mean elevation [?] | 783.03 m |
| Catchment mean slope [?] | 8.43 ° |
| Catchment strahler 1 length [?] | 898.55 m |
| 2km buffer river length [?] | 20282.73 m |
| 2km buffer ponds perimeter [?] | 619.02 m |
Water quality monitoring data for this lake is available from the EA water quality service.
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