Light and shadow on Loch Fada, Trotternish, Isle of Skye

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A Designated Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Loch Fada is a small inland loch at the southern end of the Trotternish ridge. Loch Fada is connected at its northern extremity to the larger Loch Leathan through a gently winding stream.

The Storr Lochs are made up of Loch Fada, with the larger Loch Leathan to the north. On the northern part of Loch Leathan, the dam for the Storr Lochs hydro-electric project was built creating the reservoir for the hydro project.

The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board received permission to construct a dam and power station at Storr Lochs on the Isle of Skye in 1949. The project combined the waters of Loch Fada and Loch Leathan in the Storr Lochs reservoir, with the generating house below on Bearreraig Bay. Construction began in early 1950, and was commissioned in May 1952.