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Frankley Reservoir
Water body ID 37891
Frankley Reservoir is a very small freshwater lake located in West Midlands, England. It is generally very shallow with high alkalinity and is situated at low altitude.
| Surface area | 10 ha |
| Mean depth [i] | 2.3 m |
| Catchment area | 33 ha |
| Grid reference | SP00258034 |
| Elevation | 182 m A.O.D. |
| Perimeter length | 1 km |
| Shoreline development index [?] | 1.17 |
| Fetch distance [?] | 0.51 km |
| Distance to sea [?] | 61.25 km |
| Water body volume [?] | 224653 m3 |
| Catchment-to-lake ratio [?] | 3.3 |
| Elevation type | Low elevation |
| Size type | Very small |
| Depth type | Very shallow |
| Geology type | High alkalinity |
| Humic type | Unavailable (no data) |
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 [?] | 187.95 m |
| Catchment mean slope [?] | 1.99 ° |
| Catchment strahler 1 length [?] | 29.43 m |
| 2km buffer river length [?] | 7583.47 m |
| 2km buffer lakes perimeter [?] | 3580.01 m |
| 2km buffer ponds perimeter [?] | 602.76 m |
Water quality monitoring data for this lake is available from the EA water quality service.
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