Water Management

BlueSky Environmental Solutions can provide guidance, advice and specialist management services in all aspects of stillwater management.

Green Algae and Lake bankside

Our services include:

Permissions and constraints - providing advice on planning matters and Environment Agency consents
Design – normally determined by the natural features of the site but factors such as water supply, pond lining, size, depth, shape, edge treatment, access and cost need to be considered.
Construction – including the machinery required and dealing with the excess spoil removed from the excavation.
Aquatic planting – including marginal plants, submerged and floating leaved plants and any protection they require from grazing animals.
Additional planting – provision of bankside trees and shrubs

Preparation and implementation of a pond / lake management plan
Wildlife surveys, including newts and great crested newts
Habitat management and creation, for example, goose management control measures and hibernacula creation
Management and installation of islands
Provision for bird-watching, including bird-hides and viewing plinths
Installation of floating nesting rafts
Bankside creation and stabilisation.
Reedbed planting and restoration
Installation of floating reedbeds
Aquatic planting schemes
Silt management and the installation of silt traps
Treatment and control of algae blooms, such as, blanket weed, silk weed and blue-green algae
Removal and control of aquatic plants
Bankside vegetation control
Removal and control of invasive species such as, Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, Himalayan or Indian balsam, Australian swamp stonecrop, parrot’s feather and floating pennywort
Wildlife management including fisheries management and Canada goose control measures
Provision of signs and interpretive material regarding, wildlife identification, wildfowl feeding and aquatic management
Installation of pond-dipping platforms and boardwalks

Please contact us to arrange a site visit or discuss your requirements.