Opened on 31 May 1933 and constructed by Ilkeston Borough Council. It took water from the Merebrook Sough supplied by the Ilkeston and Heanor Water Board works at Homesford. It had a capacity of 2 million gallons and supplied Ilkeston. This reservoir is now demolished c. 1933 and houses now stand where it was. (info: Cate Marshal FB Heanor Bygones) It had suffered from subsidence caused by coal mining. It consisted of a single tank with no dividing wall. The columns were made from streel.