Beacon Park Building with Nature Case Study Desilting and restoring a lake in Lichfield. Salix were employed to undertake the restoration work to Beacon Pool for Lichfield Council on this Heritage lottery funded project. The lake was heavily silted with sediment deposited from the brook and with many years of decaying leaf litter. The lake was created many years ago by filling in over peat bog which left the lake with soft and rapidly eroding banks of made ground. To prevent any migration of silt in this crayfish sensitive water course Salix chose to over pump and dewater the Lake. Pontoons were used to float machinery out onto the lake Silt was then removed using long reach excavators on timber tracking mats as access to the bed was not possible in water logged peat. The si

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