Roadford Reservoir is located to the north-east of Broadwoodwidger in West Devon eight miles east of Launceston. It is the largest area of fresh water in South West England. It was the third and last ‘strategic’ reservoir in South West Water’s plans for SW England, after Colliford & Wimbleball. It receives water from the River Wolf, has a surface area of 295 hectares (729 acres) and a storage capacity of 34,500 megalitres (8 billion gallons).
After the sluices were closed in October 1989, the reservoir started to fill and the first wildfowl (now WeBS) count was carried out in November 1989. Since then, a team of up to eight counters has carried out monthly counts (in all weathers!) of all wildfowl, waders and gulls on the reservoir by walking four different stretches of the reservoir bank. The monthly WeBS count figures are entered in the logbook in the hide and the data is submitted online to WeBS. The hide at Westmoor, donated by Devon Birds, was opened by Bill Oddie on 31 March 1995.
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