Hallo everyone who has joined Friends of Emersons Green Park. You should get an email to alert you to this post when I publish it. Here’s hoping! I am no expert at this.
Friends will be interested to hear this news, just released by South Glos Council.
Message extract begins …“We will be starting the second phase of our operation next week, on Monday 10 February. We estimate that the volume of silt to be removed is approx 710m3. The operation for de-silting will be as follows:-
- Excavate silt from ponds and stockpile on land adjacent to the ponds to allow for dewatering.
- Fence off stockpiles with Herras fencing whilst water drains out.
- Reinstate areas and tidy up site.
- Summer months revisit site to remove dried out silt.
- Use excavator to load dumper.
- Dumper to convey silt to lorries and load using JCB 3CX or similar.
- Lorries to dispose at licensed tip.
- Reinstate and tidy up site.
Site notices will be erected this week informing visitors of the scheduled works.” …Message ends
My Comment: It looks like it might be hard to make the place look good this year. We will have to see what the piles of silt look like surrounded by Heras fencing. Here is a picture of Heras fencing.
I had hoped we might sow some wild flowers in Spring. This might still be possible. All ideas and comments very welcome. Chris
Friends of Emersons Green Park 
Hi, so pleased to receive news about the ongoing works in our park.Just a few comments, are they going to address the awful smell from what seems to be washing machine waste that appears from time to time below the foot bridge over the stream? Also wouldn’t it be nice if we could have some bird nesting boxes put up in some of the trees to encourage the bird life in the park?
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Hello Chris, thanks for inviting me.
Ok, so it does all look a little “stark” around there at the moment, but at least we’ve been given an almost blank canvas to start again and make something that can be sustained with proper ongoing management. Because this hasn’t been in place for the last 10 years (I think it’s that long!) all that we were left with was nothing more than just scrub, so I haven’t shed one tear that it has all been removed. Once the de-silting takes place in the water courses we should return to the lovely sight of young families taking their children down to feed the ducks, as we used to do when we first moved down here 10 years ago. It won’t take long for all the greenery and wildlife to return, and your wild flowers should follow along soon enough.
Please continue to feed me any updates and I’m happy to be involved with the project.
Best regards
David Barker