Spelga Reservoir bridge uncovered

Filmed during the dry season in July 2018 when Spelga Reservoir water levels were depleted, uncovering the old bridge and road from before the dam was built.
From Wikipedia:
The reservoir and dam were built as part of a project that had origins in the idea of supplying water to Belfast, in 1894. The Spelga Reservoir itself was developed between 1953 and 1957. The Dam was designed by the Belfast engineering firm of R. Ferguson and S. McIlveen and construction was undertaken by John Laing & Sons. Building started in 1953, and ran into problems. As they poured the foundations on the bedrock they found that the dam was sinking, it was found that it was as much as 40 meters to the actual bedrock. A more comprehensive ground investigation showed that they had started building on large boulders: "boulders encountered in the site investigation were thought to be bedrock which was subsequently found to be as much as 40m lower".
The Portadown and Banbridge areas receive their water supply from the reservoir. Whilst it has not been stocked with fish for some years, it is home to wild trout.
In 2018, a heatwave and dry weather caused the water supply to drop, exposing what lies on the reservoir bed, an old road that usually sits well below the waterline.
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Recorded using a Mi Drone 4K
Edited using Davinci Resolve

[@moralstarpodcasts9306]

Nice video.

[@norman18grp]

Very nice 😎
Those green hills coupled with the blue sky remind me of the windows xp wallpaper 😀

[@sharonsloan]

We're for the Mournes on Friday, any suggestions that aren't Tollymore?

[@sharonsloan]

@@markdj57 Will add that to the list. We're going to Newcastle's first. Tollymore is an all day thing at the speed I go at, stopping every 2 minutes for a photo, lol