Loch Bràigh Horrisdale | |
Other Name: | Loch Horrisdale |
Pushpin Map: | Scotland Highland |
Coords: | 57.6692°N -5.6947°W[1] |
Type: | freshwater loch[2] |
Outflow: | Badachro River[3] |
Basin Countries: | Scotland |
Length: | 0.75miles |
Width: | 0.33miles |
Area: | 38.2ha |
Depth: | 18feet |
Max-Depth: | 51feet |
Volume: | 62000000ft3 |
Shore: | 3.7km (02.3miles) |
Elevation: | 92m (302feet) |
Loch Bràigh Horrisdale is a small, irregular shaped, freshwater loch in Wester Ross, in the north west of Scotland. The loch lies approximately 2miles south southeast of the village of Badachro and is close to the Fairy Lochs.
An in-river hydro-electric scheme down-stream of the loch has been proposed. As a result of this, an environmental assessment of the fish and fish habitat of the loch and its outflow was commissioned. The assessment was reported in 2014. A full EIA planning application for the 2MW scheme was lodged with Highland Council by Three Lochs Hydro Ltd on 28 July 2016.[4]
The loch was surveyed on 6 August 1902[2] by T.N. Johnston and John Hewitt and later charted[5] as part of the Sir John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.