Ecological Contracting

De-silting on the wetland reserve

Client: The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

Summer 2010

Project outline

This was a Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) funded project for WWT Arundel that involved de-silting works on the main lake on the wetland reserve. An area was relandscaped to form a wet grassland complex with water control structures to allow water on and off the system. The area is designed to attract breeding waders. A number of pools were constructed within an existing reedbed area to provide fishing opportunities for bitterns and invertebrate habitat.