Case study: Dredging a private fishing lake to increase the capacity for the fish and wildlife.
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Pleasurewood Hills Lake Vegetation Clearance
Sometimes Jex Plant is contracted do things that others can’t. At Pleasurewood Hills we cleared a lake of vegetation and debris under a live ride.
Essex Small Pond Silt Removal
Case Study - Removing Silt from a Pond This being a smaller project the methods remains the same to conventional pond dredging. The machines and equipment are loaded in to a safe area. Then they travel in on bog mats to the work area and a full drain down occurs...
Norwich Claxton Farm Reservoir
Case Study - Clearing an Irrigation Pond On arrival, immediately noticing the severely overgrown vegetation that carries all the way round the irrigation pond, containing large amounts of sticks and debris. In this situation it will make it extremely difficult to pump...
Brentwood, Little Warley Pond Desilting
Case Study : Removing Silt from a Pond As seen in the before photo below, on arrival pond has already been drained completely, with no inlets allowing it to stay dry. The process carried out here started with the careful removal of the fence, following the...
Desilting Stillwaters
Environment Agency Report on Desilting Stillwaters The Environment Agency has recently published a report called Desilting Stillwaters that outlines the consequences of silt buildup in bodies of water. The report suggests using traditional dredging equipment and...
Fly Ash Lagoon Clearance
Case Study - Removing Fly Ash from a Lagoon Traditionally Power Station Fly Ash Lagoons are emptied using excavation or dredging to recycle the waste fly ash. This process is slow, and potentially very damaging to the environment, with spillage from the bulk...
Farm Slurry Lagoon Emptying
Case Study - Removing Slurry from a Lagoon Traditionally farm slurry lagoons are emptied by first stirring the slurry and then extracting it to slurry tankers ready for spreading on the land. There are three main problems with this; 1) It is time consuming 2)...
Broads Authority Trial
Case Study - Silt Pumping Trial We were contracted to do a trial to provide the Broads Authority with evidence of our ability to dredge from one location and use our silt pumping system to deposit the silt at a location several hundred yards away. As you can see in...
Desilting Testimonials
Testimonials from some of our Customers A small sample of testimonials received from some of our customers over many years in the Dredging and Desilting industry. Broads Authority Trial We were contracted to do a trial to provide the Broads Authority with evidence of...
Sibelco slurry lagoon clearence
Testimonial from Sibelco The following statement was provided to us from the team at Sibelco As a large Industrial Minerals company we create solids as a by product of sand washing. The solids generated from our process settles into lagoons which from time to time,...
King’s Lynn Golf Club
Testimonial from Local Golf Club The following endorsement was provided to Jex Plant from the King's Lynn Golf Club Jex Plant were chosen from a number of companies who had quoted to carry out ground work to extend and deepen our irrigation pond. They were very...
Crawley Mariners Yacht Club
Testimonial from CMYC The following endorsement was provided to Jex Plant from the Crawley Mariners Yacht Club I am pleased to be able to say that we are most satisfied with the way the work was carried out - the team worked well with us to ensure that it went...
Natural Swimming Pond Construction
If you have a large enough pond in your garden, have you ever considered turning it into a natural swimming pond? In normal circumstances it would not be advisable to swim in a garden pond because they are rarely clean enough to safely do so. They usually have...
New pump makes moving solids a breeze
Moving Solids with Silt Pumping Systems Traditional dredging requires a host of machinery and manpower, is very environmentally unfriendly and expensive. Addressing these issues, Jex Plant has been using pumping systems to desilt lakes, rivers, lagoons and reservoirs...
Golf Course Water Feature Maintenance
Removing Silt from a Golf Course Lake As with all bodies of water, golf course lakes and rivers will silt up over time. The effect this has on the wildlife living in and around these bodies of water can be great. Fish have shallower water to live in, and the waterway...
Norfolk Broads Review Of Services
A Testimonial from Edmund Nutall The folllowing Testimonial was provided by Mr Alchin - an Engineer at Edmund Nutall Ltd (now BAM Nutall) Edmund Nuttall are currently undertaking work on the Norfolk broads as part of Broadlands Environmental Services Ltd. We have been...
Aggregate Industries Mepal Quarry Review
A Testimonial from Mepal Quarry Manager Detail of work: Pump silt from lagoon system to specified location within quarry boundary Jex Plant attended site October 2008 with the scope of works removal of silt from two lagoons to a specified location within the Quarry...
Russel Mill House Lake Review
Testimonial from A Lake Dredging Customer I thought I would drop you a line to say how pleased I was with your recent dredging of my lake. The operation was not an easy one as it involved moving machinary across land and gardens both limited by size and with limited...
Nar-Ouse River Regeneration
Testimonial from Birse Civils Project Manager Jex Plant has been contracted to the Nar Ouse River Regeneration scheme to carry out the site clearance works and the supply of skilled and semi skilled labour. Stage 1 of the project was originally awarded to Birse Civils...