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In/upfill of Cormorant lake (north) continues. 6th November 2021

7/11/2021

 
With clocks going back last weekend, I had to resort to Saturday morning site visits. Keeping my fingers crossed that Inert weren't working on Saturdays. Otherwise I'd have to adjourn my visit to Sunday.

Rainfall has finally abated. The odd short, sharp shower is all that has passed this last week. Despite this, ground conditions were soft. Interestingly, ground conditions over the latest in/upfill was very firm.

Inert have ploughed on with the in/up fill of Cormorant lake (north). The area of lake bed, which the bulldozer had ventured upon last week, has largely been both in and up filled.

I think I have to revise my optimistic estimates of the length of time to complete work on this lake. I feel a good four weeks will be good going. The speed of restoration depends on how much stuff can be obtained and shipped in. Plus the hiring of sufficient numbers of trucks.

However, once Cormorant lake (north) is filled, there is still the matter of completing the infill of Cormorant lake (south), plus the outstanding work of digging out the new Manor Lake (south), and the large pond that should occupy a position just south of Cormorant lake (north); and then on to tree planting and final landscaping e.g. the new Finch ponds.

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    A polite notice first: All photographs on this blog are owned by me and subject to copyright.

    Also, note that I have special permission to be on the Eversley quarry site of Fleet Hill farm, Manor farm and the Hampshire part, Chandlers farm. They are not open areas for general access.  Please keep to the public rights of way.

    I was quite fascinated to see how Cemex would restore their gravel extractions workings to become a nature reserve, and so started this blog.  There is an ulterior motive. It does mean that my partner and I get some well needed exercise as we stomp around the reserve every week.  Following the progress of the restorations does mean the walk is not as tedious as it might otherwise become.

    Don't worry about one of the archives being November 2025. You haven't entered a time warp! It's just that I've discovered a way to pin a post to the top of a blogger in Weebly; not straight forward apparently.  I have to set the date far far into the future.

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