Sandy Bay

Sandy Bay is a little straight on the eastern Mediterranean shore of Gibraltar, on the contrary side of The Rock from the primary city. It is arranged toward the south of Catalan Bay and is open through Sir Herbert Miles Road. Straightforwardly above Sandy Bay and the Sir Herbert Miles drift street were Gibraltar's substantial water catchments, which are never again being used. The incline on which they sat is the Great Gibraltar Sand Dune, an antiquated merged sand rise which rules the east side of the Rock of Gibraltar.

The hill's normally smooth surface took into consideration the development of a water catchment region made up of a folded steel sheets and a layer of cement. Water streamed down the slant into an open channel which nourished into the repository framework inside The Rock. In 1898, work started on four 5 million gallon water supplies which were cut into the western side of The Rock. They were authoritatively opened by Governor George Stuart White in 1901. These supplies were encouraged by moderately little water catchment regions on the western side of The Rock.

The water catchments above Sandy Bay were worked in stages somewhere in the range of 1903 and 1961, and were intended to provide food for Gibraltar's regularly expanding request. The first arrangement was to cover a territory of 10 sections of land 40,000 m². Somewhere in the range of 1911 and 1914 a fifth supply was unearthed inside the Rock and the catchment zone expanded to 24 sections of land 97,000 m². By 1961 the aggregate catchment zone had expanded to its greatest of 34 sections of land 140,000 m².