Tests performed in November 2008 found the pond had a phosphorus level of 11 parts per billion (ppb) at mid-point and 10 ppb adjacent to the Eagle Holt bog intake structure.

For instance bog garden plants don’t like too much water, but marginals like to be in shallow water and water lilies are deep-water plants that root on the bottom of the pond.

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Bottomley said water is only released from New Pond to the Norton Bog Reservoir in Easton, in dire circumstances. He’s done it three times in the last eight years.