Swindon Advertiser<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n The previous green weeds, which ducks and swans had struggled to swim through, were due to an invasive type of duckwood called Lemna Minuta.\n<\/p>\n
\n It’s believed the invasive duckweed is what was causing the excessive weed to reproduce so rapidly.\n<\/p>\n
\n In 2025, the parish council laid out a plan to use specialised equipment to pump out and remove as much duckweed as possible.\n<\/p>\n
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The lake was once declared an eyesore (Image: South Swindon Parish Council)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis intervention at Queen\u2019s Park builds on our commitment to enhancing our parks and green spaces, as demonstrated by last year’s successful pond restoration in front of the hot house,” Councillor Neil Hopkins, chair of South Swindon Parish Council, previously told the Adver.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Further treatments will continue for several years to address the issues and will be carefully monitored by council officers.”\n<\/p>\n
\n According to the parish council, the duckweed issue comes from decades of accumulated silt, improper feeding practices, and vegetation decay that have contributed to unnaturally high nutrient levels in the water.\n<\/p>\n
\n While treatment of invasive duckwood at the park is not over, residents say the difference is already clear.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’s so lovely to see new life in this beautiful park and the water is so much clearer now,” dogwalker Anna told the Adver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lake at Queen’s Park in Swindon has often been referred to as ‘the green lake’ in previous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-958451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116570869339572172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}