Phoenix_V

cheaper than chucking your engine out and replacing with electric no?

This simple enough? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20L-Solar-Power-Water-Shower-Camping-Portable-Seaside-Sun-Compact-Heated-Outdoor-/175217173656?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c10

the principal seems plausible there are plenty of electric composters out there which turn kitchen waste to compost in a few hours so a higher temperature to deal with pathogens????

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they all work on nice new clean steel, the issue is how well they work when there is a load of rust on the other side !

you dont think 2 million appears a little high even if listed

I agree with you, they are chronically underfunded, what should be a national asset is being allowed to deteriorate beyond help. Nevertheless they could spend the money they have on other things that 2 million pound accomodation bridges.

Any use? found on a previous thread

It was a view based on relevant experience, the above only serves to reinforce. If you don't have money to maintain the track of the canal why waste it on stuff like this even at half the price and at that cost!!!!!!!!!!!!

and yet my suggestion on another thread that crt might not be the most efficient (at canal maintenance) was rubbished

especially considering that it would have been like that for at least 45 years to my knowledge and probably 87 years

See my previous comment, the EA deal with weirs and flood relief on the crt Lea and Stort so if the figures were made public a fair comparison could easily be made

opinion based on hard experience would be interested and suprised to learn whether anyone has come to a different conclusion

nothing to do with navigation just weirs and drainage same as Lea and Stort which are crt rivers Ah so that is your gripe. Don't have any figures but many years of cruising said navigations and observing how they are run have given me an opinion. The figures are freely available from the independants but I don't know if crt produce separate figures for river navigation costs. I could make a freedom of information request but that would only remove more money from the front line - perhaps Narrowboat Albert has some.

I'm not quite sure what your point is - someone said that ANT is subsidised by the government and I pointed out that was not true. I went on to say that however rivers do cost less to maintain than canals. But if you delve into ANT's running costs they do appear to be more efficient on a like for like basis than crt. Which bit did I get wrong prey?

Point of order that is simply not true "It receives no funding from central or local government." https://www.avonnavigationtrust.org/about-us/ What is true is that along with Wey Navigation and Chelmer and Blackwater it is run far more efficiently than CRT. Notwithstanding that canals generally cost more to run than river navigations and it is doubtful if any canal navigation could be self funded, that is why the National Trust handed over the Southern Stratford to BW.

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