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19 July 2021

New Wetlands Official Opening

The special access created for this wetland area, including gravel footpaths, timber boardwalks, and viewing platforms will reduce visitor impact on this fragile habitat and enhance the visitor experience.
The newly created wetlands at Bramshot Farm Country Park held their opening this July with the project complete and the public now able to enjoy the wonderful new habitat and wildlife it will attract to the area.
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15 July 2021

National and Regional Recognition of Regency Restoration

The Regency Restoration is the largest project of its kind in Wales and the first ecological and landscape restoration completed for a generation. As the central feature at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, it brings significant benefits to people in the local community and the wider tourist industry worth over £330million to the surrounding area. Educational benefits from engagement during the construction and beyond have seen people of all ages volunteering their time, promoting the heritage and environmental importance, and have raised the profile of civil engineering. Extensive works included lake and reservoir creation, dam reconstruction and new water control infrastructure, 6 footbridges, extensive footpaths, and the reinstatement of this 18th century landscape. The dedicated and close-knit team of specialists in the project team have worked closely together throughout, involving many volunteers from the local community, to deliver a sustainable legacy for future generations and sympathetically restore the 200 year old landscape. They are proud to have these achievements recognised. ICE Wales Project Award winners will be announced in September and BCIA Winners in October 2021.
WM Longreach and the Regency Restoration Project team are proud to have been shortlisted as finalists for the ICE Wales Project Awards and BCIA Coummunity Initiative of the Year
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22 June 2021

Dam Repairs at Dudmaston

Dam Repairs at Dudmaston
Working with the National Trust at Dudmaston, repairs were carried out to dam on the lower lake as well emergency works on the main lake requiring the removal of a tree that had fallen into the lake and repairs of the adjacent footpath.
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31 May 2021

Reducing Environmental Impact

Specialist low ground pressure machinery is being used to minimise the impact on the wetland environment at Bramshot Farm Country Park, a Site of Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) created to reduce visitor impact on fragile habitats. The wide tracked long reach reduces ground pressure by up to 50% and the floatation tyres and all terrain, walking capabilities of the Batemag ‘spider’ excavator allow minimal impact on the wetland during excavation of the pools.

In the construction of wetland pools WM Longreach are reducing their impact on the environment with the use of specialist low ground pressure and ‘walking’ excavators. 

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03 May 2021

Dam Restoration for Duchy of Cornwall

Dam Restoration for Duchy of Cornwall
Working on behalf of the Duchy of Cornwall in Bath, access improvements together with the restoration of the dam were carried out this month. The scope of works included camp shedding and reprofiling with stonework repairs to the dam and spillway structure. Paths and fishing platforms were also constructed for the local angling club.
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30 April 2021

Community Benefits from Wetland Creation

Bramshot Farm Country Park, managed by Hart District Council and its Countryside Service, is a Site of Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) created to reduce visitor impact on fragile habitats within the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area in 2017. To enhance the area of habitat and visitor experience this project involves the creation of a series of new wetland ponds and improvements to the accessibility of this area through the creation of gravel footpaths and timber boardwalks including raised bunds.

The 4 new wetland pools, 2 wetland scrapes, footpaths and boardwalks WM Longreach are creating to enhance the visitor experience as well as environment and ecology at Bramshot Farm Country Park are taking shape.

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22 March 2021

Newton Park Enabling Works & Lake Maintenance

Newton Park Enabling Works & Lake Maintenance
Works involving the construction of an access road and local silt removal commenced this month on enabling works as part of the larger restoration project planned for late 2021.
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26 February 2021

Bronington #BogLIFE project

Despite the challenges of the poor weather, with it being the wettest December on record in 30 years, and January bringing a second ‘Beast from the East,’ WM Longreach have been able to reach key milestones in the construction of the culverts and open channel works on this Natural England bog restoration scheme. Importantly, to ensure easier ongoing maintenance, silt traps have been installed upstream of the culverts to minimise silt build up in the pipes. Downstream of the culverts pitching stone and a weir have been installed picking up the existing drain.

Despite wettest winter in 30 years works have been progressing well on this important lowland bog restoration scheme, with the completion of 400m of culvert works as well as, to date, 1km of the open channel works.

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