Construction
The site was chosen by the Cardiff Harbour Authority, who manage Cardiff Bay, to create an important new environment from the previous salt marsh, and to help compensate for the loss of the Cardiff Bay mudflats.
Edmund Nuttall Ltd. won the GB£120,000 contract to build the Reserve, and work was completed by the end of November 2003. In 2001, a landscape architect, Phil Williams from the Landscape Institute, was appointed. He said:
| “ | We were working in a difficult environment, the site was not going to develop a new ecology overnight. We didn't know the extent to which the water level in the bay might fluctuate and therefore affect the new communities of species we are trying to attract. Dealing with this changing situation demanded a cautious approach. The site needed careful monitoring. | ” |
Since the Wetlands Reserve was constructed, tonnes of debris had flowed down from the River Taff and collected near the reserve, so the Cardiff Harbour Authority had to build a 450 metre floating boom to prevent debris from entering the bay.
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“There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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