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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 8:14:24 GMT
It would be quite funny if they were unable to get the required hardware to site due to lack of dredging.
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Post by kris on Aug 12, 2020 8:16:29 GMT
It would be quite funny if they were unable to get the required hardware to site due to lack of dredging. As Tony has pointed out, that situation already exists.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 8:21:42 GMT
I thought he was promoting a theory that it may happen, not that it had happened.
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Post by quaysider on Aug 12, 2020 8:29:30 GMT
let the official record state I have been NO WHERE NEAR THIS LOCK - not since 2013 when I was working in Nottingham but then ON FOOT!!!!!
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Post by kris on Aug 12, 2020 10:35:39 GMT
I thought he was promoting a theory that it may happen, not that it had happened. As cart don’t currently have a crane boat in Nottingham which ever way it comes it going to face lots of gravel deposited by last years floods.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 14:09:51 GMT
When going up the locks at Hurleston a few weeks ago I noticed a trickle of water coming out the towpath and running downhill next to the bottom lock, mentioned it the lockie and he said its fine and someone had spilt some water.
Going back down at the weekend I noted it still there, it does look like water is passing through the lockwall and up through the towpath.
The lockie also told me the lock side, towpath and bank had been rebuilt last winter.
I should have took a phot and sent off really, but then they wont do anything.. I will be back that way in a few weeks so will check again and grab a photo.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 14:42:58 GMT
I reported that leak to C&RT back in May @froggy ... and I know at least one other boater who also reported it and sent photos.
The new nearside lock wall was rebuilt over last winter ... but when the lock is left full it leaks onto the towpath. It obviously won't be significant at present but it will get worse and worse no doubt ... and in any case the contractors shoukdn't be allowed to just leave it.
My C&RT reply suggested the contractors were coming back to finish the job ... I assumed it had been or would be fixed.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2020 15:04:50 GMT
I wonder how often a lock wall should be re-pointed..
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 12, 2020 15:07:08 GMT
Lying lockie. Incompetent contractors.
The state of the country, eh?!!
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 13, 2020 10:21:23 GMT
We know now where the craneboat for the Meadow Lane job was and what it's been doing for the last two days. It passed me at Barton a few minutes ago, so it's probably had to dig it's way down the Soar from wherever it's been since last Winter's floods subsided.
I hope they get stuck on the shoaling at Barton Island and have to dredge before they can get any further on, . . . although, of course, that would be an absolute certainty if there was something like a Leeds & Liverpool Short boat already sitting there, stuck fast just where the navigable channel used to be. What an awful waste of such a wonderful opportunity to rub C&RT's corporate noses in their own mess !
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Post by kris on Aug 13, 2020 11:38:20 GMT
I’m supposed to have been sat in the middle of the river for the last three weeks am I?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 11:54:01 GMT
Just do as you're told kris ! Rog
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Post by kris on Aug 13, 2020 12:38:39 GMT
Just do as you're told kris ! Rog Yes that is the issue. It’s amazing how many non conformists want everyone to conform to them.
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Post by kris on Aug 13, 2020 12:40:32 GMT
I can confirm the crane boat past me about an hr ago. He said he’d had issues at Barton island, but it is private contractors doing the dredging, alegedly at some stage.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 13, 2020 19:43:36 GMT
I’m supposed to have been sat in the middle of the river for the last three weeks am I? You were made aware via C&RT Notice/Updates, timed at 1449 hrs on 11 August, that there was a craneboat on the way to Meadow Lane with an ETA of sometime this afternoon, which was in plenty of time for you to have got to Barton Island well ahead of it this morning, . . which, as things turned out, would have meant you spending no more than 3 hours aground before it arrived ! Would that really be such a terrible hardship, . . for an aspiring 'Boaters Representative', and such a devoted champion of our inland waterways ?
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