Loch Bràigh Horrisdale

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Loch Bràigh Horrisdale
Loch Horrisdale
The eastern shore of Loch Braigh Horrisdale
The eastern shore of Loch Braigh Horrisdale
Location Gairloch, Wester Ross, Scotland
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Type freshwater loch[2]
Primary inflows streams from Loch a' Bhealaich and Loch a' Ghobhainn[2]
Primary outflows Badachro River[3]
Basin countries Scotland
Max. length 0.75 mi (1.21 km)[2]
Max. width 0.33 mi (0.53 km)[2]
Surface area 38.2 ha (94 acres)[1]
Average depth 18 ft (5.5 m)[2]
Max. depth 51 ft (16 m)[2]
Water volume 62,000,000 cu ft (1,800,000 m3)[2]
Shore length1 3.7 km (3.7 km)[1]
Surface elevation 92 m (302 ft)[1]
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Loch Bràigh Horrisdale is a small, irregular shaped, freshwater loch in Wester Ross, in the north west of Scotland. The loch lies approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) 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.

The loch was surveyed on 6 August 1902[2] by T.N. Johnston and John Hewitt and later charted[4] as part of the Sir John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.

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