http://highgatemenspond.com/ Heath Ponds & Dams Project dam news Date: 25 June 2013 17:23 Dear Swimmers, During the latest stage of the Ponds Project the following options from the engineers have been suggested for the Boating Pond dam (the dam between the Men's Pond and the Boating Pond). I must stress that these options were rushed out to us following the recent Pond's Project Stakeholders walk on the Heath, and they are very much back-of-the-envelope calculations which we intend to challenge. We hope to have more precise information in three weeks time. "Do Nothing Option – if you didn't put any additional storage at the Boating Pond then Atkins would need to install a 125m grass reinforced spillway across the whole of the Men's Pond dam. This is 5m longer than the existing dam and would require total tree removals even around the left and right hand side of the dams. The existing dam would be re-profiled so that it linked immediately into Highgate No.