Naughty horse owners. Old pump plumbed into Manor lake. Over half of eastern North embankment flattened. Part 3. 2nd October 2022

Part three of this week's update gets a little murky, I'm afraid. One reason is that I have not been visiting the area around the former pump station as religiously as I should have; assuming that much of the work over the past few months has been confined to the western part of the site.  Another reason is that what Inert have done to the area around the former pump station and the mighty mound that sat here for months, is not altogether clear.

Firstly, I cannot work out if Inert are shipping yet more stuff into the site. They have created heaps of soil - one of their favourite pastimes. To my mind, it doesn't make sense for Inert to ship stuff into the site, as I reckon they have to dig masses of stuff out of it to form the new, long Manor lake.

What I think they are doing is digging out the excess stuff they shipped in. Rather than commandeer the heavy earth movers to ship this stuff to Chandlers farm, they have, instead, built mounds. This leaves the heavy earth movers to get on with demolishing the eastern North embankment.

At a later stage, the heavy earth movers will then be used to move the spoil heaps over to Chandlers farm.

Regardless, Inert have been bulldozing the area that will become the new, long Manor lake, cutting out a fair depth of soil. They've also dug some curious channels, which might simply show the intended depth of soil to be removed.

I think they may have also dug a channel between the current Manor lake and the former Cormorant lake. However, I'm not too sure about this, as it might have been done some time back. Anyway, the channel doesn't work as it is blocked by a small bridge of spoil.

Inert have removed the pipes that used to take water from the site, over to Chandlers farm. Good piping this. It can be reused.