Popular marine lake to see series of closures
BBCA popular marine lake will see a series of temporary closures over the summer and autumn, it has been announced.
The seafront lake in Weston-super-Mare, which dates back to the 1920s and was closed over the winter for a £1m upgrade, will be closed from Monday to Thursday.
A number of other short closures were being organised across the rest of 2026 to allow for maintenance work to be carried out, bosses said.
The work would be focused on inspecting and maintaining the lake's sluice gates, and will avoid the busy school summer holidays, they added.
North Somerset Council, which owns and manages the lake with the help of a team of volunteers, said the gates required frequent checks to make sure they were working properly.
During the closures, the lake would be fully emptied, allowing for routine maintenance work, including removing debris from the gates, and allow overtopping tides to naturally clear some silt from the bottom of the lake, it said.
There were no current plans to fully dredge the lake of silt and debris in the near future, it added.
The lake will be closed on the following dates:
- Monday 15 June to Thursday 18 June
- Tuesday 14 July to Friday 17 July
- Wednesday 9 September to Friday 11 September
- Monday 12 October to Wednesday 14 October
- Tuesday 24 November to Friday 27 November
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