I AGREE with John Coxon that 'We need a full public enquiry into this incident and all the other failures of the system supposedly maintained by CaRT', writes Bill Ridgeway.
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THE growing evidence against CaRT’s dismal maintenance of the dam is now in the full public eye, writes Kevin McNiff.
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I'VE HEARD heard some rubbish from CaRT but this really takes the biscuit, It now says: 'Toddbrook dam was inspected twice a week'! writes John Coxon.
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ON FRIDAY I received my annual application for membership of the Inland Waterways Association, and have binned it, writes Joan Phillips.
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CLOSING the whole of the Macclesfield Canal, the Lower Peak Forest Canal and the Upper Peak Forest Canal is, I think, nothing but a knee-jerk reaction, writes Bill Ridgeway.
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AS FAR as the emergency at Whaley Bridge is concerned, Canal & River Trust is behaving like a headless chicken in not knowing what to do next.
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UNPRECEDENTED rainfall it has been, but questions must be asked of CaRT about the maintenance regime and inspection of this very old design of [Whaley Bridge] dam, writes Kevin McNiff.
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THE Whaley Bridge dam collapse hopefully will lead to serious questions being asked as to CaRT's fitness for purpose as custodians of the UK canal system, writes Ralph Freeman.
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THE Canal & River Trust has decided to close both the Peak Forest and Macclesfield canals.
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THOUGH at present the broken reservoir dam is holding at Whaley Bridge, should it give way it is expected it will flood the Peak Forest Canal.
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