Post by tadworth on Aug 5, 2018 12:58:49 GMT
There has been a half arsed attempt at dredging on the GU in the Milton Keynes area, the dredgings have been put back in the waterway on the offside behind a screen of fabric held up by posts. A lot of areas have been missed on this dredge, moored boats were just dredged around, and this length is by no means back to proper depth .
I'm wondering if this way of dumping the dredgings by narrowing the waterway is a good plan, A. You don't gain any extra water capacity B. You can only do it once, or until you have filled in all the banks back to the original dimensions, and C. When the fabric degrades the whole lot will collapse back into the waterway.
And D, the new infilled bank will be highly fertile mud and will grow like crazy, CRT is already letting the offside bank overgrow the canal, this is going to make it worse.
I'm wondering if this way of dumping the dredgings by narrowing the waterway is a good plan, A. You don't gain any extra water capacity B. You can only do it once, or until you have filled in all the banks back to the original dimensions, and C. When the fabric degrades the whole lot will collapse back into the waterway.
And D, the new infilled bank will be highly fertile mud and will grow like crazy, CRT is already letting the offside bank overgrow the canal, this is going to make it worse.
