That's the way to do it

WHILST British Waterways is struggling to find cash for dredging its canals, the Broads Authority is getting the European Union to pay for it.

The Broads Authority has been awarded around £800,000 from the European Regional Development Fund for dredging its waterways, that John Packman, Chief Executive of the Broads Authority, tells is very welcome at a time when its National Park Grant has been cut by almost a third.

Dispose of sediment

The problem is not the actual dredging, but finding sites to dispose of the sediment, so the fund will be used to develop disposal sites across the Broads which will enable areas which haven't been dredged in recent years to now be dredged.

One of the areas will be the Bure between Salhouse and Wroxham Broad, using the sediment to reinstate a bank lost to erosion at the entrance to Salhouse Broad.

The old mud wherries, which are used to carry sediment to the disposal sites, were inherited from May Gurney and are rather old, will also be replaced using the fund.