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Saturday 23rd October 2021 SH (Editor)

Lake desilting work set to start in November

South Gloucestershire Council has announced the imminent start of work to desilt the lake in Bradley Stoke’s popular Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve for the first time in 16 years. It is expected that footpath and cycle way closures will be in effect for a period of up to 21 days starting 1st November 2021.

Photo of flooding at the Three Brooks Lake on Friday 11th October 2019.

Tuesday 27th April 2021 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks lake desilting postponed

South Gloucestershire Council has announced that its £250,000 project to desilt the lake at Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve has been delayed until November 2021. The work was supposed to take place this winter, but has now been rescheduled due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Map showing the location of the spoil dump area that will be used during the upcoming lake desilting operation. The route of a surfaced path that will be created as part of the project is also shown.

Sunday 10th May 2020 TH (Reporter)

Lake desilting project: Further details released

The lake will be desilted by machine and the silt moved using dumper trucks to a spoil area (behind BSCS) which has recently been cleared in preparation for the main scheme starting in the autumn. Additionally, a 300-metre stretch of pathway along the northern edge of the lake will be surfaced.

Photo of Cllrs John Ashe (left) and Roger Avenin at the lake.

Wednesday 19th February 2020 SH (Editor)

Council finds £250k to pay for lake desilting

Councillors in Bradley Stoke have welcomed South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) allocation of £250,000 to an environmental project that will see the lake in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve desilted for the first time in 15 years. The lake, which regularly floods due to its current condition, is in acute need of desilting and has been the subject of public

Sunday 17th November 2019 SH (Editor)

Flooding brings renewed calls for lake dredging

Another episode of flooding in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, on the morning of Friday 11th October, saw paths covered in several feet of water, making them impassable for children walking to school and commuters using the Concorde Way cycling route. The incident has brought renewed calls for South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) to expedite dredging of the Three

Flooding in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, Bradley Stoke, Bristol.

Monday 24th September 2012 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks lake overflows following heavy overnight rain

Heavy overnight rain has caused flooding in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, leaving the two bridges by the “duck pond” almost totally submerged. The path along Stoke Brook, between Brook Way and the duck pond, was this morning flooded to a depth of around three feet in places. The area beneath the Bradley Stoke Way road bridge was