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Post by kris on Apr 17, 2018 14:10:13 GMT
'Ere you go young man Thanks, Stumpy, it's this photo that really seems to me to highlight what's wrong with C&RT as a navigation authority, . . and just how far away they are from achieving the primary objective laid down in their Articles of Association. No effort or expense spared to ensure the towpath's in first class order, alongside an unusable canal full of rubble, brought there, dumped, and left in it by the navigation authority's contractors ! The contractors did this on the towpath improvement from Leeds to Shipley. They just leveled off the excess hardcore into the cut, making it impossible to get to the bank in certain places. I seem to remember in that instance the contractors where made to come back and remove a lot of it.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Apr 17, 2018 14:19:25 GMT
Looking again more closely at the last photo of the four, it looks as if the leak in the canal bed might have been 'repaired' by simply laying a plastic sheet in the canal bed and covering it with all that rubble and stone to hold it down. There are what look like corners of such a sheet, or sheets, sticking out from under some of the rocks in the centre and right foreground of the photo.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 14:48:41 GMT
As this forum's resident, self-appointed, leading authority on the canals in and around Birmingham appears reluctant to publicize anymore of the embarrassing details about his C&RT heroes failings on here, I think I should draw the TB member's attention to this photograph of the recently 'repaired' fucked up pound at Minworth. It was taken, together with three or more others, by his mate, Jeff, and posted on CWDF yesterday. You say that, but he did post in on the web, just not here. A petty comment.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 17, 2018 14:49:58 GMT
"it looks as if the leak in the canal bed might have been 'repaired' by simply laying a plastic sheet in the canal bed and covering it with all that rubble and stone to hold it down."
Ssshhhh....! They were hoping no-one would notice.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Apr 17, 2018 15:18:26 GMT
As this forum's resident, self-appointed, leading authority on the canals in and around Birmingham appears reluctant to publicize anymore of the embarrassing details about his C&RT heroes failings on here, I think I should draw the TB member's attention to this photograph of the recently 'repaired' fucked up pound at Minworth. It was taken, together with three or more others, by his mate, Jeff, and posted on CWDF yesterday. You say that, but he did post in on the web, just not here. A petty comment. Thank you for your opinion, . . I'm sure the objectionable old hypocrite will be equally grateful for your support.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 15:26:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 15:37:25 GMT
You say that, but he did post in on the web, just not here. A petty comment. Thank you for your opinion, . . I'm sure the objectionable old hypocrite will be equally grateful for your support. Its not support..
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Post by TonyDunkley on Apr 17, 2018 17:10:17 GMT
For the benefit of anyone still deluded enough to cling to the belief that C&RT are are even remotely capable of maintaining and operating our canals and inland navigations, here's the Notice they issued in response to the complaints about the lack of depth immediately after they'd completed the Minworth repairs balls-up :-
Between Minworth Locks 2 and 3, Castle Vale and Minworth, Birmingham & Fazeley Canal
Notice Details
From Date: 26th March 2018 at 08:00 To Date: until further notice Type:Navigation RestrictionReason:RepairDescription:
The recent work to repair the bed leaks and the failing walls has been successfully completed between Lock 2 and Lock 3 at Minworth.
However, we were unable to fully dredge the silt and remove the extensive debris due to its hazardous nature. The centre channel within the pound was reinstated to 900mm with the lock landing untouched.
Over the weekend we have received a number of calls from our customers with deep drafted boats to say they are unable to travel through the pound. Before travelling, please ensure the pound level is up and stay in the centre channel.
We will be easing this problem further in the short term and, in the long term, seeking to secure funds to do some further dredging works.
We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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Makes interesting reading against the backdrop of those four photographs, does it not ? C&RT's institutional incompetence is both far ranging and endemic. Not only is the efficient, and effective, maintenance and operation of our waterways completely beyond them, but they can't even make a decent job of lying about it either !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 17:21:06 GMT
900mm is interesting. Is this some sort of new standardised standard depth standard?
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Post by Jim on Apr 17, 2018 17:24:56 GMT
900mm is interesting. Is this some sort of new standardised standard depth standard? I don't know, it will require deep in depth thunking to get to the bottom of the conundrum.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 17:31:52 GMT
I just wondered if it was written down somewhere. Perhaps in the CRT bible.
Twat.
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Post by flatdog on Apr 17, 2018 17:55:48 GMT
Unbelieveable and unacceptable.
I'm just speechlees…Seriously…who the fucking fuck fucking fucked that up.
Disgusting waste of money hard earned.!!
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 17, 2018 18:05:16 GMT
I think it's rubbish to think that all silt and debris (broken bricks) are 'hazardous' - farmers spray their fields with poisonous pesticides all the time, these soak into tomato and cucumber skins and everyone eats them and says "Yum, yum!". Just get yer wellies on and get stuck in clearing out all that muck, you lazy so-and-sos.*
*plural soes? I'm not sure if I went to a 'proper school'. But I did go to Ware College which is now 'The University (haha! yeah!) of Hertfordshire'.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 18:46:22 GMT
Someone (perhaps Nick) mentioned that the particular pound is historically known to be shallow.
To add the rubble therefore was a stupid thing, more stupid than a stupid thing on national idiotic day.
To then tell a 'tall story' about the problem is embarrassing.
Someone on CWDF pointed out that the photo showing the rebuilt wash wall, also appears to show that silt has been piled up against it.
I'm no expert (as many of you will have noticed) but how you can rebuild the wall without removing the piled up silt.
The silt is back there, so something's going off.
Rog
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Post by TonyDunkley on Apr 18, 2018 7:15:35 GMT
900mm is interesting. Is this some sort of new standardised standard depth standard? I think that's probably just a figure that some managerial clown pulled out of thin air in the vain hope that there might be something like about 3 feet of water there with the pound on weir. From memory I think the 'official' dredged depth (from the BW table of dimensions for what they called the Main Operational Channel) for the 'Bottom Road' (Birmingham & Fazeley) is given as 1.1 metres (3' 7''), . . . still nowhere near enough when the necessary clearance depth under a boat of the maximum designed/intended draught for that canal is reckoned in.
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