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Craigavon Balancing Lakes

Craigavon Balancing Lakes

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Craigavon Balancing Lakes

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Location: Tullygally, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Grace Mulligan

May 4, 2023

Running

Craigavon Balancing Lakes, referred locally as 'The Lakes' are a set of man-made lakes built in the 1970s to control flooding. The route around the lakes is entirely flat and follows a mixture of paved and gravel paths close to the shoreline, which creates some wonderful water views as you jog along.

Alex

January 18, 2023

Mountain biking

Similarly to a reservoir, these balancing lakes function as a water store. However, instead of storing the water for the purposes of consumption it is utilised to temporarily store flood waters. As the surrounding areas become more built up with hard surfaces, less rain excess water is stored by soil resulting in it routing quicker into the rivers. These balancing lakes help by reducing the volume of rain water reaching the rivers, which prevents flooding.

And more importantly for cyclists it has the great byproduct of providing a pretty feature for MTB trails to be built around!

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