Five hour heavy rain. Inert build more banking. Part 2. 28th August 2022

This section covers the area around the west side of Higher Reed bed and Main reed bed.

Inert continue to transport topsoil from the western North embankment to smear it across the middle part of Manor farm. Oddly, the depth of soil looks quite shallow. However, there is still the ridge and eastern North embankment to be flattened.

Some of the topsoil has been used to clearly mark out the western shore of Higher reed bed. I have a lot of problems reconciling what I see with what Inert have done when compared to the latest, alleged, plans I have from Wokingham Borough Council's planning website.

This plan calls for Higher reed bed to be separated from the Main reed bed by two lines of banking, with a channel running between them. The issue I have is that I can only see one line of banking, which morphs itself from being part of the Main reed bed (the southern half) to being part of the Higher reed bed (the northern half).

The western edge of the Higher reed bed should be surrounded by banking (there is none, currently) and its south west shape is both incorrect and insufficiently far south.

There appears to be a channel in place ( I couldn't cross the thing, and had to make a long detour south), plus it's on the wrong side of the banking that Inert crafted over the past three weeks. On its southern edge, the channel is on the correct side of the banking. On its northern edge, it is not.

Most peculiar.

The south west corner of the Main reed bed, where is intersects Manor lake, is a bit of a complicated mess. Inert were working on this area, demolishing a former land bridge and using the spoil to create the banking between Manor lake and the Main reed bed.  It all looks fine, and squares quite nicely with the plans I have, except that Manor lake does not extended far enough west, to my mind. Oh well, time will reveal all.