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Post by cygnus on Dec 20, 2020 20:26:43 GMT
The Aire & Calder Navigation has a breach, it is near the New Bridge in the Pollington to Goole length. Emergency Gates have been shut outside Goole to safeguard the Goole Docks. Water levels in Goole are down a little, maybe 18inch but okay. I don't know what the situation is at Rawcliffe Bridge or Pollington.
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Post by metanoia on Dec 20, 2020 20:35:59 GMT
That sounds worrying.
Whilst we are all so very aware that there are very many, much more serious things happening right now, we should all be trying to do what we need to do/promise/are paid for .....
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Post by TonyDunkley on Dec 20, 2020 20:58:15 GMT
So, . . there's the end of the new sea dredged sand traffic to Leeds !
Roughly the same number of loads delivered as it took in years to get this blighted traffic running before C&RT chuck a spanner in the works.
Good job those stank gates at Goole are there, . . they were put in in case the canal was bombed during WW2, and C&RT has at last proved their worth by achieving what the Luftwaffe never did.
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Post by JohnV on Dec 20, 2020 21:01:11 GMT
The Aire & Calder Navigation has a breach, it is near the New Bridge in the Pollington to Goole length. Emergency Gates have been shut outside Goole to safeguard the Goole Docks. Water levels in Goole are down a little, maybe 18inch but okay. I don't know what the situation is at Rawcliffe Bridge or Pollington. that sounds bloody serious Joe !!!
That screws all the commercials, let's hope they get their finger out !!!
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Post by kris on Dec 20, 2020 21:06:58 GMT
The chickens really are coming home to roost.
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Post by JohnV on Dec 20, 2020 21:13:35 GMT
to go down 18 inches at Goole that is one hell of a lot of water when you add up the distance to Pollington and Sykehouse and that resevoir (Southfields?) plus the area of Goole docks wow!!!
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Post by JohnV on Dec 20, 2020 21:28:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2020 21:50:34 GMT
The chickens really are coming home to roost. The pigeons, Kris.
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Post by JohnV on Dec 20, 2020 21:57:46 GMT
according to post on fb, Goole Docks closed to shipping
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Post by cygnus on Dec 20, 2020 22:06:56 GMT
It's reported as a 30ft breech. The surrounding fields are flooding down there and the local villages are on imminent flooding alert. The new shooting range near the end of the New Junction is flooded.
We are in Goole Boathouse Marina, so protected by the emergency gates. Hopefully they're not leaking. Even so my bow is on the bottom and the stern has dropped a fair bit. Walking uphill on the boat. We have slackened off the stern lines in case we continue to drop. We've been around checking on neighbours boats, some have their sterns aground and rudders fast. They'll need watching as levels come up, narrowboat gunnels under jetties will need sorting.
Helicopters will be working at first light to help plug the breech.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2020 4:32:41 GMT
C&RT has at last proved their worth by achieving what the Luftwaffe never did. I'm sure you made the same cropola joke about Toddbrook.
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Post by JohnV on Dec 21, 2020 7:05:31 GMT
understand fm fb that it is expected helicopters to start dropping bags into breach at first light, drains and dykes have been diverted to flood farmland to try to protect homes and pumps brought in
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Post by TonyDunkley on Dec 21, 2020 7:33:03 GMT
according to post on fb, Goole Docks closed to shipping If that's so, and depending on how long before the canal can be got back up to normal retention level so the Docks can operate at normal arrival draughts again, . . that could cost C&RT a pile of dough.
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Post by cygnus on Dec 21, 2020 7:40:47 GMT
The levels within Goole have dropped a further 8inch overnight. There must be some leaky gates. 😄
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Post by JohnV on Dec 21, 2020 7:46:58 GMT
The levels within Goole have dropped a further 8inch overnight. There must be some leaky gates. 😄 You'll have to get used to walking uphill
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