restoration of an overgrown, leaking pond in clay soil
A series of images illustrating the restoration of this neglected pond, its water control structures and rims.
This is the pond before we started. This pond is a natural clay based pond with occasional inflow runoff water.
The first step in the restoration process was to pump the pond down, remove the overgrowth at the margins and pump out silt from the base.
Creating a level lawn rim with of green oak planking. Note the ugly inflow pipe in the top right hand corner of the picture.
Green oak lawn rim installed and a brick headwall built to "house" the inflow pipe.
A view across the pond from the new water control structure towards the house. Still waiting for good rainfall to fill it up and flush it through.
The pond was leaking at the outflow control, so having repaired the leak, we built the water level control structure (at the back of the pond in this image).
During the restoration works we built this 7.0 metre long green oak jetty.
The finished restoration. Still waiting for rainfall to flush the pond!