Hayeswater

At times used to Trinkwassergewinning

Hayeswater is one of the smaller lakes in the northern English Lake District National Park. It is 1.1 km long and 200 m wide.

The lake lies in a branching off to the southwest near the village of Hartsop valley of Patterdale between Gray Crag to the west and The Knott in the east.

Hayes Water is a natural lake, but this was in 1908 in addition dammed up by a small dam and served as a reservoir of drinking water for the surrounding communities. Since 2005, the lake was no longer used for drinking water, which was instead expanded Haweswater. The operating company is planning for 2014 the decommissioning of the dam to return the lake back to its natural shape. As of May 2014, the water level should be lowered slowly and then removed in June in a four-month construction phase of the dam. The water level of the lake will fall by the degradation of the dam by two meters. During the construction period the preservation of trout are given special attention in the lake. After the transfer back to the original state, then in the lake originally native eels can go back there again.