The Environment Agency have been very much in the news in recent days, regarding their management of flooding rivers. Their lack of dredging on the Parrett in Somerset has come under particular scrutiny, and the Thames between Oxford and London has flooded in many places, writes David Davis.
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A NEW venture for the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stone is a floating market that will be held over a length of the towpath side of the waterway.
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A LIFEBOAT, that could mean life or death to anyone in trouble in the Trent, has been stolen, with the volunteer Colwick Park Lifeguards in Nottingham now without its means of rescue.
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BOATERS have been giving their services to Canal & River Trust to alleviate the flooded Oxford (pictured) and Grand Union canals, by clearing culverts and weirs of debris that has been carried in by the excess water.
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THE Canal & River Trust is proposing to trial a range of temporary changes to the moorings at Paddington Basin and the Little Venice Pool in London to meet a wider range of mooring needs over the coming summer. The initiative follows feedback from boaters and boating groups.
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WITH the adverse weather conditions continuing, the Cotswold Canal Trust have had a major setback with the newly installed Dudbridge Locks, on the Stroudwater Canal Restoration, writes Peter Ponting.
SINCE publishing the Evasive answers article this morning by Allan Richards, we have now included the two three year plans of Canal & River Trust.
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Staffordshire County Council and Pedal Peak District are to spend a total of £3.5 million pounds on the Caldon Canal—but alas not on the waterway itself but just the towpath.
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