Lake and pond dredging
Blue Boar Contracts provide much more than just lake or pond dredging services in isolation. In addition, we can also manage the entire project from start to finish if required, covering the following areas:
- Initial survey to identify volume of silt to be removed.
- Application for Waste Exemption Certificates, including liaison with Environment Agency to demonstrate that silt will have a positive environmental impact.
- Services searches to ensure that no submerged pipelines will be affected.
- Ecology surveys to identify any protected species such as newts or water voles, which may affect the overall project.
- De-silting of lakes or ponds using long reach and/or floating excavators.
- Distribution of silt onto farm land to the required proportions based on results of soil sampling, including spreading, levelling, cultivating and stone picking.
- Restoration of water edge in a variety of materials to meet the requirements of the client, including bio-engineering using natural products if specified.
Costs for work of this type are dependent on the size of the lake, the amount of silt to be removed and the ultimate location of the silt, plus any additional restoration works.
