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Restoring Toddbrook Construction work has started on a project to restore Toddbrook Reservoir in the UK
Above: Artist impression from Memorial Park
MAJOR CONSTRUCTION WORK HAS now started to restore Toddbrook Reservoir in Whaley Bridge. The project is likely to cost around £15 million and take around two years to complete, with the reservoir due to reopen in late 2024. The Canal & River Trust charity which cares for the
Right: Tom Greenwood, project manager for the Canal & River Trust, and Tess Smith, stakeholder manager for Kier
reservoir and 2000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, is working with its contractor Kier to deliver the restoration. Work has already begun to create a site compound on the northern end of the town’s Memorial Park, which has been temporarily closed to the public. Hoardings are being erected, site accesses installed and existing drainage and feeder channels realigned. The public will still be able to walk through the park on a footpath connecting Reservoir Road to the Memorial Park Bridge, which will feature a viewing point. New children’s play equipment has been installed as a temporary measure at the top of the dam, next to Whaley Bridge Athletic Football Club. At the end of the project, a new playground,
Below left: View of the reservoir, photograph taken August 2022
Below right: Construction work on the dam in August 2022
similar to the existing one, will be rebuilt at the same location in the Memorial Park. The park will also be re-landscaped with replacement trees, wildlife habitats, extra paths and a new footbridge over the reservoir bypass channel. The project aims to achieve a net biodiversity gain of more than 10%.
Overflow spillway Later this autumn construction work begins to create
a new overflow spillway structure to the north of the dam. This involves building a side channel weir, ‘tumble bay’, spillway channel and stilling basin which will link into the existing bypass channel flowing into the River Goyt in the park. To make way for the new spillway works, the sailing club will be relocated behind the new tumble bay. The clubhouse has been dismantled and will be replaced by a new sailing club slipway, clubhouse, boat storage and car park. The final phase of the project will be to remove the concrete panels from the 1970s-built overflow spillway,
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