A company that owns land in Nottinghamshire has seen an increase in the number of people that are trespassing and swimming in their quarry lakes to keep cool, and describes it as "exceptionally dangerous". CEMEX, a materials provider, owns land at Attenborough Lakes by the nature reserve, but has seen a rise in people breaking into their site to go swimming and taking vital lifebuoys in the process.
Quarry lakes are lakes that are formed after a quarry has been dug through during a mining operation. According to CEMEX, these can include bits of machinery and strong currents that people might not know about, and cause problems.
Swimming in quarry lakes is said to be more dangerous than open-water swimming because of this, as the number of issues people could face are much higher. A security official at CEMEX has explained why.
