Jump to content

swat

New Member
  • Posts

    1
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

swat's Achievements

Gongoozler

Gongoozler (1/12)

0

Reputation

  1. The company behind this scheme is Wakefield Sand and Gravel Ltd, owned by Newlay Concrete of Ravensthorpe near Dewsbury, who claim they are to build several new barges, (possibly electric powered ones) to ship the cargo to their depot at Ravensthorpe using the Calder and Hebble Navigation. I doubt that, as the last commercial traffic to use it ceased in 1981. The amount of dredging needing to be done is mind boggling. Back in 2020 a well known barge operator secured a contract to deliver North Sea sand from Hull to Leeds but failed to reach his destination because the CRT hadn't bothered to dredge. The CRT should be reminded that these waterways are still commercial waterways, and should be managed as such. If this new sand quarry gets underway it will most certainly go by barge to Leeds and then by road to Ravensthorpe and elsewhere. If those men who built our waterways, the engineers and surveyors, could see the progress that never happened they'd throw up.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.