[1][2] It is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

[3] The site was formerly settling ponds to remove washings from sugar beet.

The east side has a lake with water birds such as grey herons, tufted ducks and pochards.

In the west there is a reedbed which has pools and channels, with great crested newts and unusual species of water beetle.

[3] There is access by crossing a footbridge over the river from Viersen Platz and turning right along a footpath.