![]() So far more than 100,000 cubic metres of sludge have been dug out and carried away in almost 11,000 lorry loads. Three huge dredgers have been floated out onto the water with small tug boats used to transport the silt back to land. The mammoth project to dredge 400,000 tonnes of silt - enough to fill Wembley Stadium to its roof - started earlier this year. ![]() Once dubbed the finest view in England by Winston Churchill's father, the vista across the lake and over the Grand Bridge to the 18th Century Oxfordshire palace was under serious threat of disappearing. The Queen Pool lake at Blenheim Palace has been slowly getting shallower over the last 100 years due to the amount of silt that has built up on the bottom.Īt its shallowest, the water was only 12ins deep. ![]() A multi-million-pound project to preserve the 'finest view in England' has reached its halfway point.
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