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The Claerwen Reservoir and Dam , Wales , were the last editions to the Elan Valley Reservoirs system built to provide water for the increasingly demanding city of Birmingham . Built mainly of Concrete , the exterior of the dam face is Dressed Stone . The dam was given a late- Victorian effect to match the much earlier dams in the valley. It was necessary to employ the services of Italian Stonemason s as British ones were still at work in London during the post-war rebuilding process of the late 1940s . The dam took six years to complete and was almost twice the size of the other dams in the Elan valley. The Claerwen reservoir is almost the size of all the other reservoirs in the Elan Valley system combined. Officially commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 , it was one of her first royal engagements. Statistics
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