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All first-time visitors to Dorney Lake without fail experience 'the wow factor' and many people ask about the 'ins and outs' of construction, how the Lake is kept in pristine condition and all sorts of peripheral questions. Here are some details:
- The main Lake is 2,200 metres long
- The requirement set by the Fédération des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA), the international rowing authority, for world-class rowing courses is a minimum of 2,000 metres
- The Lake has eight lanes, each 13.5 metres wide
- It is a minimum of 3.5 metres deep
- This depth standard provides the body of water necessary for racing boats to perform at optimum effectiveness
 The parallel Warm-Up Channel is up to five lanes wide
- Its depth is 2.5 metres
- The Warm-Up Channel will be completed in 2006
- The astounding amounts of 4 million tonnes of gravel, 1,970,000 cubic metres of topsoil and subsoil and 585,000 cubic metres of basal clay will have been extracted during construction of the main Lake and Warm-Up Channel
- To minimise disruption to the local community material extracted has been removed on a special conveyor belt to a point two miles away where it can more easily be collected by lorries
- The project will have covered over 10 years by completion in 2006
- For many years pre-construction fertiliser use was restricted on the then fields to ensure high-quality water
- The Lake is fed from underground aquifers (streams) percolating through a natural gravel filter.
Please see the Green 'Cred' page for further details
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