Broomfield's Lakes and pond

Wild Swimming.

The Broomfield Swim Society is continuing its campaign and exploring new funding streams after they were unable to meet the initial crowd funding target. Their aims have changed and broadened since they started and now the project includes restoration of all the lakes and the Boating Pond and some of the surrounds as well as developing clean water sources and swimming in the lower lake.

This has become a very large project and will involve the local community, Enfield Council, Historic England and many other organisations in consultation if it succeeds. It has the potential to make significant and very welcome improvement in the park.

FoBP formally support this project and have added to our action Plan for 2020/21. We hope to take an active part in the process as well as helping to publicise, promote and engage the local and park communities.

A high priority in our 2019/20 Action Plan was to drain and clean the Boating Pond and restore a clean water supply from the artesian well. Over the  winter, Enfield Council's contractors carried out work to repair the collapsed pipelines in both supply and drainage systems. This should have fixed the problem, but we have been unable to operate the drain from the pond effectively.  A further survey showed that the supply pipe is working, but that there is a further blockage in the drain from the pond. We are waiting to hear when this work is completed before we work with the Council to drain and clean the Pond. Hopefully this can be done before the algae starts to get a foothold in the summer.