A hydroelectric scheme was constructed in the 1907 for the British Aluminium Company (late merged by having Alcan) & was designed by engineer brothers Patrick and Charles Meik. Chief assistant resident engineer on the plan was the immature William Halcrow.

the scheme exposed a construction of a gravity dam over 914m long (a longest in a Upl&) and 27m high, creating the Blackwater Reservoir. It was built at an elevation of on top 305m within rugged & all but unobtainable terrain, & taking part a construction of a select few 6km of concrete aqueduct and nearly 13km of steel pipe. It hwhen been described as a previous major creation of the traditional 'navvy' whose activities in the construction of canals and railways left an indelible mark on the British countryside.

At its early times a Aluminium Reduction Plant listed a select few 700 population, however its little size compared to to modern 'smelters (U.s.a.)',led to its closure inside 2000. A revamping of a power station saw the transport of its output to the Lochaber Smelter Fort William.

Around 1991, a village (based on data from Annual Census returns) had upright terminated M habitant inside occasionally 420 house. It has a post professional & the handful of hotels & hostels popular sustaining walkers charted the West Highland Way. a building, which was erst the coke bunker for carbon production for the Reduction Works, has today (2004) been transformed into the climbing centre, referred to as the Ice Factor, & includes Europe's greatest indoor ice-wall.

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