BOATERS THROUGHOUT the system are telling us that they are stranded, with a 'double whammy' of flights closures or lack of water.
Such is the state that the BBC has taken up the the cause of the stranded boaters.
Telling that 'narrowboat owners have been disrupted, and some stranded, by low water levels after parts of the West Midlands canal network were shut due to extended dry weather'.
It adding that 'the closure of the lock flight at Minworth means the Curdworth section of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal is impassable.
Lock flights are also closed at Wolverhampton, Rushall in Walsall, Cheddleton in Staffordshire and Coventry, which the Canal & River Trust said would continue until prolonged rainfall replenished supplies'.
One boater telling his boat was constantly running aground. Image by courtesy of the BBC.
Yet the trust state the majority of the network was 'open and fully navigable'.
With all the major northern waterways closed and many others either restricted or closed and nearly all flights locked-up! And two failures yesterday on the Kennet & Avon. The Leicester Section closed from locks 1 to 38. The Rochdale locks 48 to 92. The Leeds & Liverpool with eight lock flight locked-up. The Ashton Canal closed.
But note, some flights are open at specified times, such as the Atherstone on the Coventry Canal.