Built, cleared, moved, repaired.
Most projects at Ennal’s Pool are practical: improve the water, open access, protect habitat and make difficult ground workable.
Water
Oxygenation, circulation and observation.
Habitat
Woodland, banks, wet ground and their edges.
Access
Access for maintenance, observation and work on steep ground.
Solar oxygenation
A floating solar oxygenator was built on site and launched onto the lake. The journal follows it from timber frame to working spray system, including the trout filmed nearby during an early run.
Working from the water
Modular floating sections make a useful work platform on a lake with steep margins. They have already moved bulky vegetation and opened access to awkward banks.
Dead hedging
Cut material from the woodland is useful habitat in its own right. Rather than taking every branch away, suitable lengths are sorted and laid between trees to form dead hedges - creating structure at ground level while keeping the woodland work practical.
Revealing the old oak
One of the older oaks had almost disappeared into a dense stand of rhododendron. Clearing around it changed the view completely - from a glimpse of limbs through evergreen cover to the full shape of the tree opening out over the bank.
Before clearance
Keeping the record
Historic photographs and maps help place today’s practical work within the much longer story of the landscape, from its clay-working past to the lake and woodland seen today.