| Topic: | Re:Re:There should be money to replace the pump there already! | |
| Posted by: | William J Malmet | |
| Date/Time: | 11/01/12 22:41:00 |
The horrible smell is because the pond is NOT deep enough. When I was child and played by the pond with my friends the main pond and the ponds in the sunken garden were about three times deeper and had lots of pond weed and snails living in them and didn't smell. Then they were refurbished (quite a long time ago) and re-surfaced with concrete and made shallower (no doubt health and safety)and the whole lot turned into a shallow smelly swamp devoid of life. Do you suppose that the refurbishment of Walpole Park would involve common sense and involve making the ponds viable as ecosystems, bearing in mind that the Council board director responsible for the delivery of environment services is the man also responsible for the lack of pump? Will. |