Perry James' Blog

New Pond & Restoration Project near Wellington.

9th September

This is the start of creating a new 20m x 23m pond constructed out of an old leaking pond and a reed bed next to it. The reed bed was excavated out and disposed of and the pond was pumped out of water, desilted of organic matter f ...

Finished water feature

1st August

At last we managed to finish this water feature during the recent heat wave.It is fed by the water in the upper Lake which flows 30m underground though 600mm diameter twin wall pipes then runs out and down the constructed water fe ...

Removal of old concrete pipes between Lakes

25th July

Here we have uncovered the old one metre long 600mm diameter individual pipes that sat not far underground that linked the two lakes.They had no seals fitted to them and were disjointed allowing the water to escape eroding the soi ...

Large Water Feature Reconstruction

21st July

This is a large water feature re-construction project between two lakes near Bampton in Somerset.The water was carried from one lake to another via two 600mm dia. one metre long concrete pipes which were not jointed together prope ...

Refurbishment of Old Leaking Pond.

4th June

This Large Old Pond on a private property situated in the Blackdown Hills had been neglected over the years. We completely cleaned it out removing the residue water, overgrown plants, bamboo and gunerah and moved it to a field whe ...

Past Lakes constructed re-visited.

24th April

These photographs show one to two acre Lakes we constructed between 2005 to 2022.A lake built for a client in Exmoor, one on a golf course near Poltreath, another in Dawlish Devon. All had serious amounts of earthmoving done and s ...

New Wildlife Pond Glastonbury

6th April

This is a new wildlife pond created from an open grass meadow field where we made adjustments to the sloping ground to accomodate the pond and then excavated the pond of 20m x 12m with marginal shelves and underliner drainage. The ...

Refurbishing a Balancing Pond

26th February

This is a job that we carried out near Wellington for Four Seasons Landscapes where we cleaned out and de-silted a balancing pond near a housing estate. It was in a dangerous condition for health and safety reasons wth the vegetai ...

Slurry Pit

6th February

Earthmoving carried out constructing a new slurry pit for a farmer near Ashbrittle Somerset.After the bulk soils were removed it had it's batters and embankments trimmed up to give a smooth finish.A ramp down into the pit was also ...

New Large Wildlife Pond Created In Exmoor

24th January

This Pond was created from an old disused farm slurry pit which was pumed down and desilted. Then the concrete walling and embankment was removed, the pond area was made twice it's size, a liner was install with drainage and o ...