Lancaster Canal breach

[Pluto]

Looks like another long closure: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cervknxz437o

[PeterScott]

C&RT Stoppage notice

[hider]

Not vandalism then?   I think that is CRT's usual claim.

[Sailbadthesinner]

There's no way in or out of the canal anyway,  Ribble link tidal gate out of action ptobably for months and Glasson Dock tidal gate out of action possibly for years.

 

[PeterF]

1 hour ago, hider said:

Not vandalism then?   I think that is CRT's usual claim.

Or boaters leaving top and bottom paddles up on a lock flooding downstream.

Edited July 24 by PeterF
Spooling

[hider]

Its a canal of no great importance anyway. CRT want it closed as it cost them to staff it. They have made lame excuses to prevent passage all year, death by attrition.

[robtheplod]

ouch, not good if you're stuck above it!!

[john6767]

1 hour ago, robtheplod said:

ouch, not good if you're stuck above it!!

Given that they have just come up with the strategy to get boats down the link, it will be frustrating for those waiting to get accross to now be stuck above the breach, which must be mostas not many boats venture to the southern part of the canal.

[peterboat]

I have been watching this on Facebook for a few days, at first they thought it was because the reservoirs were turned off, however the pictures showed water going in but clearly doing nothing to help

[jonathanA]

Next one will be on the L&L at Parbold. Theres been a sink hole appearing in the towpath near me and CRT keep looking into it.... quite literally. Their response Couple of barrows of stone and fence it off.....  

 

It must be getting more serious as the orange plastic fence has been upgraded to two pieces of block and mesh.... 

[Cheshire cat]

I think we are about to reach grounhog day. Richard Parry and colleagues have been betting on managing to persuade the new government to up their support. 

 

If it doesn't happen then closures and sale of assets seems to be the only options.

[peterboat]

Coffer dams in place now, so canal filling up again

[Chagall]

20 hours ago, hider said:

Its a canal of no great importance anyway.

It may not be important to you but it's very important to those that live and travel there, and is truly beautiful so important in its own right.   

[peterboat]

22 minutes ago, Chagall said:

It may not be important to you but it's very important to those that live and travel there, and is truly beautiful so important in its own right.   

It's a lovely canal and well worth a visit, given the difficulty CRT has imposed on getting there I am not surprised at people's attitude to going there

[Ianws]

22 hours ago, hider said:

Its a canal of no great importance anyway. CRT want it closed as it cost them to staff it. They have made lame excuses to prevent passage all year, death by attrition.

The Lune Aqueduct. Not very important?

[David Mack]

23 hours ago, hider said:

Its a canal of no great importance anyway. CRT want it closed as it cost them to staff it. They have made lame excuses to prevent passage all year, death by attrition.

So unimportant that only 25 or so years ago British Waterways constructed a whole new section of navigation to make it more accessible to boats on the rest of the system.

[hider]

21 minutes ago, Ianws said:

The Lune Aqueduct. Not very important?

Pretty yes, important to who?  Its a dead end channel, no loss to the system as a whole. Turn it all into a SSSI.  Save money.

[Peugeot 106]

15 minutes ago, hider said:

Pretty yes, important to who?  Its a dead end channel, no loss to the system as a whole. Turn it all into a SSSI.  Save money.

Maybe it’s important to all the people that walk, run, fish, boat, paddle board, canoe and sit by it. Maybe important to the Kingfishers and people with moored boats there too. Hope that answers your daft question 

[Chagall]

21 minutes ago, hider said:

Pretty yes, important to who?  Its a dead end channel, no loss to the system as a whole. Turn it all into a SSSI.  Save money.

Since it's obvious you are making this comment again purely to get a bite, then I'll give you one. ...with a force of 1,000 PSI

 

 

[Arnac]

21 hours ago, robtheplod said:

ouch, not good if you're stuck above it!!

That will be us then 😂. Nothing we can do about it. Not a bad place to be marooned I guess  CRT phoned regarding this breach and the Ribble a couple of days ago. They still reckon they'll get us back to the 'mainland' (we were booked to go to Tarleton for September). How, I'm not sure 😀. 

[Chagall]

It's a great place to overwinter, just ask Ange. 

[hider]

1 hour ago, Peugeot 106 said:

Maybe it’s important to all the people that walk, run, fish, boat, paddle board, canoe and sit by it. Maybe important to the Kingfishers and people with moored boats there too. Hope that answers your daft question 

The daft part is that boaters pay for everyone elses' pleasures, walking, fishing, paddle boarding, canoeing and squatting, sorry, sitting. The kingfishers can look after themselves. And once the moored boats have gone they can all have it to themselves and we boaters won't have to pay for it.  CRT will be delighted.

[Arnac]

It aggravates me no end when you see the CRT workboats working on resurfacing miles of remote towpaths and then the next set of locks you encounter are leaking and the paddle mechanisms are faulty. 

 

I don't pretend to know about CRT finances and CRT priorities and CRT work practices but all I do know is that the optics, from a boaters perspective, are awful.

 

[Alan de Enfield]

7 minutes ago, Arnac said:

........the optics, from a boaters perspective, are awful.

 

You mean that they are not the 35ml ones !

 

 

 

If they are still using the old 25ml optics they should be boycotted !

 

 

Edited July 25 by Alan de Enfield

[Ewan123]

21 hours ago, jonathanA said:

Next one will be on the L&L at Parbold. Theres been a sink hole appearing in the towpath near me and CRT keep looking into it.... quite literally. Their response Couple of barrows of stone and fence it off.....  

 

It must be getting more serious as the orange plastic fence has been upgraded to two pieces of block and mesh.... 

Where's that one? We're in Parbold now...

3 hours ago, Chagall said:

It's a great place to overwinter, just ask Ange. 

That was our plan (B - plan A was Summer but didn't realise how far in advance we'd have to book)! There's supposed to be an update on the Ribble Link on 30th July but it seems doubtful that it'll be open to any normal service.