ANOTHER hydro-power scheme on the Thames has been opened, generating electricity following seven months construction.
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NOT only a silly scheme but a very one dangerous too, as the people at Canal & River Trust are to allow canoeists into tunnels.
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THE week certainly did not start very well for boaters, with three failures resulting in the Macclesfield and Rochdale canals and Aire & Calder Navigation being closed.
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I AM afraid that Helen Cripps is going to be disappointed if she believes that CaRT is going to dredge the bridges of the Macclesfield Canal, writes, T. Lang.
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Over the past few weeks we have received many emails for publication from both regular and new contributors on many waterway subjects, but though mostly being very short they still deserve publication, so we are including them.
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BOATERS who have travelled the section of the Trent & Mersey Canal between Stenson and Swarkestone locks must be fully aware of the battering that Deep Dale Bridge (17) gets over the years from vehicles that miss the sharp bend on to the bridge and demolish part of the parapet.
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A GROUP of canal volunteers arrived back at Shireoaks on the Chesterfield Canal in the pouring rain having completed an epic journey. They had just completed their second Sponsored Boat Pull.
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I TOOK the chance yesterday to walk City Mill River, the part of Bow Back Rivers that millions of pounds is being spent on, writes Dick Jeffreys.
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PAYING £1.25 million for a luxury houseboat proved a bad decision for two couples as they were led to believe they had a 125 years mooring licence and planning permission to live in the houseboat, but had neither.
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I don't see how spending £1.8 million on that fancy Carpenters Road Lock, just to open up a mile long loop, that no one will use is a good use of money.
There is a perfectly good route along Limehouse Cut to the Lee Navigation, without using the loop, that in any case I understand will take ten years to complete, at no one knows what cost. What a waste.
Jim Cracken
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