So here we go with yet another plan to move household water via the canals.
This time they don't even know which canal they are using with our being told it is the Grand Union taking the water up the Atherstone Flight of locks!
And it's not the Grand Union, that's for sure—as most of us are well aware.
Do these people really know anything about the canals? Obviously not, especially as they are to use one going through a town that doesn't even have a canal!
But it has all been gone over before and proved unworkable. Just as this mad scheme most certainly will be.
But how much money is going to be wasted before they realise it's impossible?
I just wonder if these people get their idea from the movement of water from Wales via the Llangollen Canal and think they can do the same. But that's clear river water that comes over Hoerseshoe Falls (pictured) to feed that particular canal and all the locks are 'downhill' to the reservoir.
£30 millions go to waste
£30 millions was the cost of restoring the Huddersfield Narrow Canal that included the much vaunted Standedge Tunnel, and it is really going to waste, with very limited navigation allowed as the tunnel is used to take visitors in for a little way and back and closing it to navigation.
And the breakages. For it was told the canal with 74 locks over a distance of just under 20 miles—and that's including over three miles of the tunnel—it would need maintenance.
With so many locks this meant short pounds (picured) that had to be regularly dredged, then came Richard Parry and Canal & River Trust and maintenance stopped as everything needing it was sold-off.
And so since then there has been stoppage after stoppage as the locks break one after the other on all the canals. As I could have mentioned before!
Articles
One boater stuck on his boat at a stoppage on the Oxford Canal tells us he spent the whole of one evening going through narrowboatworld and using its search facility to trace back the articles he was interest in, he telling he was amazed at the 'amount of stuff' as he called it and wanted to know how many articles there were as 'there was no end to them'.
Well, my friend, this particular article is number 16,801—not including those before the update some years back. So you will need quite a few evenings to get through that lot!
Victor Swift—telling tales for 25 years