River Trent

[Naughty Cal]

Notice Alert

Fossdyke Canal
Starts At: Lock 1, Torksey Lock
Ends At: Lock 1, Torksey Lock

Wednesday 3 January 2018 until further notice

Type: Navigation Closure 
Reason: Water resources

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Original message:

 

Due to the flood levels rising and the current high tides, we have had to close Torksey Flood Gates. 

Boaters will not be able to get through Torksey Lock until further notice. 

You can view this notice and its map online here:
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notice/12156/torksey-flood-gates

You can find all notices at the url below:
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices

 

Also got a message yesterday to say that the gates were on at Newark.

[matty40s]

Good to see they are only a week behind the rest of us.

[john6767]

I was going to ask the question, how high does the water level get in the lock cut?  But a search shows the answer, crikey!!!

 

[Flyboy]

I drove over the Trent at Willington at noon today and it was well into flood and going like the clappers.

[matty40s]

It got higher than that......

 

[john6767]

26 minutes ago, matty40s said:

It got higher than that......

 

Same guy on the same day, so probably not too much different.  All a bit extreme, I think I will stick to canals in winter!

[noddyboater]

I recently met the owners of "Jacks Ferry", the tiny isolated house on the flood bank. They run it as a holiday cottage with diesel for the genny and logs for the stove included in the very low nightly rate. A footpath leads straight to the "Swan", and you get to drive down the private access track. Just maybe not in winter..

[zenataomm]

Torksey is splendiferous.

During the Summer when The Trent is on tick over many are confused as to why it has a second pair of gates at what should be the bottom of the lock.  What confuses them is the second set are pointed against the river. As can be seen the river is quite lower ..... normally.

https://goo.gl/images/4mSW7U

It's hard to imagine that the river can exceed these flood gates ..... but it can and does.

https://goo.gl/images/PHK1Aa

 

 

 

Edited January 4, 2018 by zenataomm
My afternoon muffins were burning

[john6767]

1 hour ago, zenataomm said:

Torksey is splendiferous.

During the Summer when The Trent is on tick over many are confused as to why it has a second pair of gates at what should be the bottom of the lock.  What confuses them is the second set are pointed against the river. As can be seen the river is quite lower ..... normally.

https://goo.gl/images/4mSW7U

It's hard to imagine that the river can exceed these flood gates ..... but it can and does.

https://goo.gl/images/PHK1Aa

 

 

 

I agree which is why I was wondering how high it does get. When you are sat on the pontoon in the summer at low tide it is a long way up!

[zenataomm]

I have seen it over the flood gates, the ones pointing at the river designed to stop the lock from reversing. Look at how high the pontoon posts are down on the river, they wouldn't make them high if they didn't have to.

I have also seen the flow through the narrows at The Glory Hole in Lincoln flowing East at such a rate you'd never play Poo Sticks unless you had your braces caught in the railings outside Wilko's.

[Mac of Cygnet]

It isn't only in winter the Trent can flood.  I was stuck on the pontoons below Torksey Lock for several days in July 2007 with the floodgates closed.  It's the Environment Agency operates them - the Torksey lockie cannot operate them.  As the Trent fell and the floodgates were opened again, both sets of lock gates were left open until the Fossdyke, which had also flooded, had subsided.   Access to the pontoons was a bit tricky for a couple of days!

[Naughty Cal]

ETA: These are not current pictures!

They just show the highest we have seen the water level.

Edited January 5, 2018 by Naughty Cal

[john6767]

41 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

ETA: These are not current pictures!

They just show the highest we have seen the water level.

I think those answer the question, but it is reassuring that the pontoons still provide safe refuge.

[Richard T]

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