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:-

1. Excavate silt from ponds and stockpile on land adjacent to the ponds to allow for dewatering.
2. Fence off stockpiles with Herras fencing whilst water drains out.
3. Reinstate areas and tidy up site.
4. Summer months revisit site to remove dried out silt.
5. Use excavator to load dumper.
6. Dumper to convey silt to lorries and load using JCB 3CX or similar.
7. Lorries to dispose at licensed tip.
8. 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