Pond

[oli thompson]

Hi Everyone,

I am doing a research project for my 3rd year dissertation at the Royal Agricultural University on the viability of restoring and improving ponds/ small water bodies. The origin of my project is a pond management plan conducted by Severn Trent in 2020 on a pond at our family farm in Shropshire (UK).

I would be really interested to find anyone with personal experience in pond restoration or watercourse restoration. I have felt so far there to be a lack of helpful information in this area so would be really grateful for any thoughts the forum may have to help..

Many Thanks,
Oli

 

[L P]

Hi Oli, I think you'll find it very hard to get any farmer to comment on the topic since John Price was imprisoned for what we would see as as correct management of a watercourse with his work on the River Lugg. Personally I refused to undertake restoration of our tiny village pond off the back of it. Sad really. You would be better aimed at EA and local councils.

 

[stroller]

FWAG in Somerset are paying via the Somerset rivers authority to reinstate and de-silt ponds, so might be worth calling them. I am hopefully going to 'make' a pond that is on defra maps but has never existed in the 50 years we've been here.

 

[sjt01]

Hi Everyone,

I am doing a research project for my 3rd year dissertation at the Royal Agricultural University on the viability of restoring and improving ponds/ small water bodies. The origin of my project is a pond management plan conducted by Severn Trent in 2020 on a pond at our family farm in Shropshire (UK).

I would be really interested to find anyone with personal experience in pond restoration or watercourse restoration. I have felt so far there to be a lack of helpful information in this area so would be really grateful for any thoughts the forum may have to help..

Many Thanks,
Oli

See the Norfolk Ponds Project https://norfolkponds.org/
Prof Carl Sayer hopes to come to restore 3 of ours this year, after surveying all of them.