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6:10pm Thursday 5th August 2010 By Chris Buratta » WORK to overhaul the Oxford Canal towpath in Jericho is set to begin this week, marking the latest stage in four years of waterway improvements across the city. The path connecting Isis Lock and Walton Well Road will be resurfaced in a project costing £115,000. Passing . . . → Read More: Oxford Canal overhaul on the right path 22nd Jul 2010 A celebratory bike ride between Smithybridge and the Summit of the Rochdale Canal is being held at 6pm on Wednesday 28 July to mark the completion of a first phase of towpath resurfacing work. Through the multi-million pound Connect2 and Connect 2 plus projects, the towpath from Sladen via Littleborough and Smithybridge . . . → Read More: Rochdale Canal towpath resurfaced 13th Jul 2010 With some of the worst drought conditions for 100 years British Waterways has today announced that it is taking the highly unusual step of partially closing a canal in the North West. The planned closure of almost half of Britain’s longest man-made waterway – the 127-mile long Leeds & Liverpool Canal – . . . → Read More: Drought forces partial closure of Leeds & Liverpool Canal
6th Jul 2010 After £500,000 of investment and almost eight months of investigations, plans and repairs, British Waterways has announced that the Caldon Canal is now reopen following a breach in November. The breach resulted in the collapse of a 15m length of the Caldon Canal embankment and damage to the canal . . . → Read More: British Waterways reopens Caldon Canal Boats lined up waiting to use the Wigan flight on the morning of July5th didn’t get started as it there was something wrong with a gate on the top lock. No stoppage notice was posted by BW North West so official details are not known but the 6 boats waiting at the bottom lock were . . . → Read More: Wigan Flight closed for a day Date published: 30/06/2010 Pennine Waterways News has today (Wednesday 30 June 2010) reported that the Rochdale Canal could run out of water in August unless there is significant rainfall before then. They have reported that a warning has been issued from British Waterways’ Manchester and Pennine area manager David Baldacchino. As the North West experiences . . . → Read More: Rochdale Canal could run out of water Environment Food and Rural Affairs Written answers and statements, 23 June 2010 Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North, Labour) To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what expenditure British Waterways has incurred on maintaining and developing waterway network infrastructure in each of the last 10 years; what proportion of such expenditure was . . . → Read More: Inland Waterways: Repairs and Maintenance 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 |
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