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Friday, 9 July 2010 The Erewash Valley trail project is a partnership involving British Waterways, the Local & County Councils and various other interested parties to deliver £520,000 of environmental improvements during 2010/11. This includes the formation of walking & cycling trails as well as benefits to wildlife and encouraging healthy living and connecting local . . . → Read More: Erewash Valley Sustrans Rangers Extract from Parliamentary Debate on Inland Waterways The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Richard Benyon): I congratulate the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Tristram Hunt) on securing this debate. After such a tense afternoon in the Chamber, it is nice to be able to find a subject on which there . . . → Read More: Parliament Debate on Future of Waterways Keen walkers are being encouraged to join the first ever 21 mile Waterways Walk in Worcestershire this summer. The circular walk, on Sunday, August 15, is in aid of St Richard’s Hospice. Over 150 walkers have already registered. The flat route starts at Droitwich Rugby Club and takes walkers through the beautiful scenery and open . . . → Read More: Keen walkers urged to join Worcestershire Waterways Walk Museum status granted for 800-year-old flint mill VOLUNTEERS who maintain an historic water mill are celebrating after it became Staffordshire’s newest fully accredited museum. Cheddleton Flint Mill was built more than 800 years ago and, after starting life as a corn mill, went on to play a vital role in grinding flint for the pottery . . . → Read More: Cheddleton Flint Mill gains museum status Plans for this year’s Leeds Waterfront Festival are taking shape, with the event expected to be bigger and better than ever before. The event takes place along the Aire & Calder Navigation and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal on 17 – 18 July 2010 and will feature craft markets, live music, fun water activities, decorated . . . → Read More: Leeds Waterfront Festival plans forge ahead BW has to manage water supplies very carefully to ensure the reliability of the system during the busy summer months. An essential part of this work is the gathering of accurate data at key locations and BW will be carrying out planned ‘site trials’ at key locations over the summer and into the autumn to . . . → Read More: Water resource investigations The first phase of consultation is now closed. BW’s works planners and waterway engineers are busy working through the feedback on version one of the plans and aim to publish version two at the end of June. The comment facility on www.waterscape.com/proposed-stoppage will then be re-opened for feedback on the revised programme up until 19 . . . → Read More: Update on winter stoppages consultation Thankfully, crime hot spots on BW’s 2,200 miles of waterways are relatively rare, but where they exist, they can make lives of boat owners and towpath users very unpleasant. There is no national waterways security service, so we’re all dependent on support from local police forces. Crime mapping is an important tool used to help . . . → Read More: Waterway crime stoppers As part of plans to establish a ‘national trust’ for the nation’s canals and rivers, BW and the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust (KACT) are piloting an innovative approach to managing the 200-year old Kennet & Avon Canal. The initiative aims to give the people who use and enjoy the waterway and the communities that . . . → Read More: BW and the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust pilot third sector A RECYCLING company has been fined £19,000 after admitting polluting a waterway and killing two swans. AWS Eco Plastics has been fined a total of £19,500 and ordered to pay full Environment Agency costs of £8,447 for twice polluting a dyke with oil at Hemswell Cliff, near Gainsborough. Lincoln magistrates heard the first spill was . . . → Read More: Recycling Company fined for Oil Spill that killed Swans |
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