{"id":3384,"date":"2010-04-22T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2013-11-19T01:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:25:28","slug":"emptying-re-filling-a-carp-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/emptying-re-filling-a-carp-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Emptying & re-filling a carp lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the experience of the Joy Lake owners, Neil & Caroline<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Surely a simple question of pulling out the plug and then letting nature fill it up again?<\/p>\n

But what do you do when you have no \u2018spring-fed\u2019 water source into your lake? Waiting for the rain to fill it up would take months, so another option is to pump water in from a nearby source.<\/p>\n

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Joy Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the route we are going down this winter, lowering the level sufficiently to allow our \u2018unusual\u2019 shaped lake, with all its lily pads, to be netted.<\/p>\n

Each department in France has its own rules and regulations, so there will be some variations, but here is a summary of our findings so far;<\/p>\n

Emptying the lake (\u2018vidange\u2019 in French) requires a permit. You can\u2019t simply pull the plug out and let your lake empty out into the nearest water-course (well you could, but if you get caught the penalties can be severe).<\/p>\n

Equally, pumping water back into the lake from a nearby water-course (in our case a handy river that runs close to the boundary of our property) requires a permit.<\/p>\n

We managed to establish a contact at the regional offices of the \u2018Service Biodiversite, Eau et Foret\u2019 \u00a0(or SBEF) in Vannes, and wrote to them to ask for the paperwork for a \u201cDemande de regularisation et vidange d\u2019un plan d\u2019eau\u201d (an authority to empty and re-fill the lake).<\/p>\n

After the usual delay (2 months!), we received a letter back telling us our lake is not registered and first needs to be legally declared with them, before we can progress to the pumping authority paperwork. We were sent a \u201cPlan D\u2019eau; Declaration d\u2019existence\u201d form to complete and return, along with copies of maps\/plan d\u2019cadastral.<\/p>\n

Hopefully this should be a formality, and we are now awaiting a response. We should then be able to progress onto the pumping authority paperwork \u2013 I\u2019ll update the blog when we get further on in our adventure into French administration!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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