Woodburn Reservoir Drought

Woodburn Reservoir Drought

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Details

Location

Carrickfergus, Woodburn

Year

1962

Date

Production 01/01/1962

Length

04min 17sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

This report from Woodburn Reservoir near Carrickfergus is missing its sound and therefore a lot of its context. However, by looking through the newspapers of 1962 we can see that Northern Ireland had been experiencing an unusual drought in the early part of the year. Warnings about the levels of water in the reservoirs had already been raised and it seems that this situation only became worse as spring turned into summer. The melt waters from the Big Freeze of 1963 would insure that this would not be an issue the following year, but in 1962 it was a major problem.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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