Breached canal at Rishton re-opens following £1.7million repair works

[Alan de Enfield]

A section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal has re-opened after a major breach of the waterway left narrowboat owners stranded.

The canal, between Rishton and Church, breached in the early hours of October 11, losing a significant amount of water, with part of the canal nearly entirely drained.

Footage taken at the time showed a huge hole in the canal bank with water flooding through to the Hyndburn Brook.

Dams were installed to try and isolate the leak in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, with narrowboat owners left unable to cook, shower or use their toilets. 

 

Now, following a six-month £1.7 million project to reinstate the canal for boaters, walkers, runners and the local community, the section has been re-opened.

Senior project manager at the Canal and River Trust, Dilwyn Parry, said: “We’ve been working hard on site to repair the canal and get it back open as quickly as possible.

 

"I’m pleased that it is back open for boating time for the peak summer season.

 

"There are some repairs continuing to the towpath between Bridge 109 to Bridge 110 which will be completed by end of May."

Rishton: Narrowboat owners stranded following canal breach

At the time, the Canal and Rivers Trust were unsure what caused the leak but they now say a small culvert dating back 200-years to when the canal was first built, and which carries a stream underneath the waterway, collapsed causing a section of the historic embankment to be washed away into the adjacent River Hyndburn.

More than 6,000 tonnes of stone have been needed to rebuild the canal embankment and reinstate the culvert.

The repair has been particularly challenging as the site of the breach is away from local roads and required a temporary access track to be built along the bed of the drained canal so that materials could be bought to site.

Mr Parry added: “The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is an extremely popular canal for the hundreds of boaters, walkers and cyclists that use it every day for their health and wellbeing.

 

Breached canal at Rishton re-opens following £1.7million repair works | Lancashire Telegraph

 

 

[Tracy D'arth]

34 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

A section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal has re-opened after a major breach of the waterway left narrowboat owners stranded.

The canal, between Rishton and Church, breached in the early hours of October 11, losing a significant amount of water, with part of the canal nearly entirely drained.

Footage taken at the time showed a huge hole in the canal bank with water flooding through to the Hyndburn Brook.

Dams were installed to try and isolate the leak in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, with narrowboat owners left unable to cook, shower or use their toilets. 

 

Now, following a six-month £1.7 million project to reinstate the canal for boaters, walkers, runners and the local community, the section has been re-opened.

Senior project manager at the Canal and River Trust, Dilwyn Parry, said: “We’ve been working hard on site to repair the canal and get it back open as quickly as possible.

 

"I’m pleased that it is back open for boating time for the peak summer season.

 

"There are some repairs continuing to the towpath between Bridge 109 to Bridge 110 which will be completed by end of May."

Rishton: Narrowboat owners stranded following canal breach

At the time, the Canal and Rivers Trust were unsure what caused the leak but they now say a small culvert dating back 200-years to when the canal was first built, and which carries a stream underneath the waterway, collapsed causing a section of the historic embankment to be washed away into the adjacent River Hyndburn.

More than 6,000 tonnes of stone have been needed to rebuild the canal embankment and reinstate the culvert.

The repair has been particularly challenging as the site of the breach is away from local roads and required a temporary access track to be built along the bed of the drained canal so that materials could be bought to site.

Mr Parry added: “The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is an extremely popular canal for the hundreds of boaters, walkers and cyclists that use it every day for their health and wellbeing.

 

Breached canal at Rishton re-opens following £1.7million repair works | Lancashire Telegraph

 

 

Parry?   Parry?  Dilwyn Parry?   I'm sure I have heard that name before.

Who hired him then?

[LadyG]

42 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

Parry?   Parry?  Dilwyn Parry?   I'm sure I have heard that name before.

Who hired him then?

Obviously ....    all appointments are made within the rule of law, nothing to do with the old pals act, obviously.

This sounds like another Parry with stupid phrases like wellness engraved on his heart. Priority should be to get his projects managed, not worry about mental health of the general public. That's not his job, all very weird.

I heard today that there were ongoing problems at Rishton, not sure if everything is signed off.

Edited April 15, 2022 by LadyG

[MtB]

52 minutes ago, LadyG said:

Priority should be to get his projects managed, not worry about mental health of the general public. That's not his job, all very weird.

 

But that's just it. It IS his job. The guvvermint cares nothing about the canals but it cases a little bit about the mental health of the general public. So it's a smart move to artificially align the presence of a canal with the mental health of hundreds of canal users who use the canal every day. That way he stands a better chance of hanging on to the grant for maintaining the system to the very high standard they currently achieve. 

 

Or put it this way, no water = no ducks = no walks to feed them. How can anyone put a price on that?!

 

 

[LadyG]

31 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

But that's just it. It IS his job. The guvvermint cares nothing about the canals but it cases a little bit about the mental health of the general public. So it's a smart move to artificially align the presence of a canal with the mental health of hundreds of canal users who use the canal every day. That way he stands a better chance of hanging on to the grant for maintaining the system to the very high standard they currently achieve. 

 

Or put it this way, no water = no ducks = no walks to feed them. How can anyone put a price on that?!

 

 

 

Edited April 15, 2022 by LadyG

[LadyG]

I know it's Chairman Parry's job remit, but do we have to have this wellness mantra from the other Parry. I absolutely cringe at these ghastly invented meta words 😆

[Ronaldo47]

Unfortunately some  organisations seem to have  got lumbered with social obligations that can interfere with their proper functioning..The railways now have green obligations that have been making it difficult for them to remove or reduce the lineside trees whose leaves have been causing accidents by coating rail heads with low friction slime.  Possibly the recent collision between two trains in the tunnel entrance that the enquiry decided was down to leaves may change things. 

[LadyG]

2 minutes ago, Ronaldo47 said:

Unfortunately some  organisations seem to have  got lumbered with social obligations that can interfere with their proper functioning..The railways now have green obligations that have been making it difficult for them to remove or reduce the lineside trees whose leaves have been causing accidents by coating rail heads with low friction slime.  Possibly the recent collision between two trains in the tunnel entrance that the enquiry decided was down to leaves may change things. 

Considering the environmental and economic damage by this HS2 nonsense, "Green Issues" are political pick and mix. I will not benefit from trains going slightly faster twixt London Central and Birmingham, what is that about?

[Captain Pegg]

5 minutes ago, Ronaldo47 said:

Unfortunately some  organisations seem to have  got lumbered with social obligations that can interfere with their proper functioning..The railways now have green obligations that have been making it difficult for them to remove or reduce the lineside trees whose leaves have been causing accidents by coating rail heads with low friction slime.  Possibly the recent collision between two trains in the tunnel entrance that the enquiry decided was down to leaves may change things. 

 

The only restriction is the same law on nesting birds that applies to everyone and isn't new as far as I know. In any case special licences can be obtained in truly safety critical circumstances.

27 minutes ago, LadyG said:

I know it's Chairman Parry's job remit, but do we have to have this wellness mantra from the other Parry. I absolutely cringe at these ghastly invented meta words 😆

 

He won't have written it himself. The communications team will have done that and he may or may not have bothered to read the proof he was sent by e-mail before agreeing to have those words credited to him. 

[LadyG]

38 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:

 

The only restriction is the same law on nesting birds that applies to everyone and isn't new as far as I know. In any case special licences can be obtained in truly safety critical circumstances.

 

He won't have written it himself. The communications team will have done that and he may or may not have bothered to read the proof he was sent by e-mail before agreeing to have those words credited to him. 

Exactly the problem, too many Indians pushing papers and spouting public relations stuff, one person could do that job, in fact a computer program could do it. 

[MtB]

1 hour ago, LadyG said:

Considering the environmental and economic damage by this HS2 nonsense, "Green Issues" are political pick and mix. I will not benefit from trains going slightly faster twixt London Central and Birmingham, what is that about?

 

Well for a start it's not about going faster as any fule kno. That's a by-product of a massive increase in capacity. Get a load of passenger traffic off the old line and you free it up for millions of tonnes of freight, for a start (at a guess). What's not to like about rail freight instead of clogging up the roads? 

 

 

[Boat afloat]

Anyway I went past the L&L near Rishton yesterday and saw the first boat in that area for ages! Maybe they have opened it?

[Alan de Enfield]

1 hour ago, Boat afloat said:

Maybe they have opened it?

 

 

That is what it says in the 1st post - "Canal re-opened"