We Built a Lake - From Start to Finish in 14 minutes

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@pengting19 9 ай бұрын

Wow I’ve been searching ages for a video like this too watch and is based in the UK, incredible build it’s like my dream too have one off these built on my land will definitely give you a call. I’m just curious off how much this would cost??❤😅. Keep these updates on this lake coming I love watching the progress.

@tomorrowsforests 9 ай бұрын

Thanks very much.. we can probably do a costs video at some point, it is a money pit lol.. but there is the clear costings for planning, digging, planting and stocking. There are still alot of jobs to complete including fencing, more planting, additional stockings, trail building and then running costs. Once we get it to a point that im more happy with, ill get the calculator out and do an update video..

@pengting19 9 ай бұрын

@@tomorrowsforests ok sounds amazing is it more then 100k? I’m just so curious lol. I’ll take any rough guess

@tomorrowsforests 9 ай бұрын

It will be around there😢 ill do a proper add up for it and update everyone.

@borthwick 10 ай бұрын

This is really lovely! Looks great! I study restoration ecology at a major university in the US. Maybe your local ecology is different, but the only thing I might suggest is gentler graduation on your edges. You have shallow areas, which are great and will serve some of the same purpose, but having water gently slope from a few cm with little dropoff helps vegetation establish and promote invertebrate growth. Y'all may have issue with bank degradation down the line if aquatic plants have a hard time growing. Depending on water height it may not be very easy for wildlife to reach, either.

@tomorrowsforests 10 ай бұрын

Hi @borthwick Thanks... Yeah i agree, this project we learnt alot and if we do anouther one we would definately do things different. The dam wall is far to steep, although hopefully we have mitigated that with planting phragmities which should migrate down to a depth of 4/5ft creating a good stable reed bed. The island we did manage to get a good 5ft wide shelf around 3/4 of it, which should act as a good planting zone for the aquatic marginals. The main section of the lake wrapping around to the shallows I wish we had a better shelf and definately next time we would do a better job of creating one. Its already naturally starting to create its own shelf in this part, with the errosion.. but lessons learnt. In the areas which have a gentle slope going into the lake we are planting it with mixed aqautic marginals and the steeper sections we are experimenting with more aggresive species that will migrate out to deeper water... that may end up leading to alot more managment of those species if they migrate to other sections of the lake but is the best we can do with what we've got.. hopefully it ends up full of plants and a thriving ecosystem... already kind of excited to do anouther lake project!

@albertvanlingen7590 9 ай бұрын

Very good point. Can't go wrong simulating nature.

@kinblanking 9 ай бұрын

Carp not ideal for biodiversity either.