Posted on 09/16/2019 8:25:03 AM PDT by Gamecock
A canal boat user accidentally drained 200-year-old waterway - causing £3m worth of damage - after leaving locks open. Water ended up gushing down the Shropshire Union Canal, washing away the banks and leaving a huge gaping hole in the waterway.
Trees along the canal were torn from their roots, hundreds of fish died
The affected stretch had to be closed, meaning boats could not travel along that bit of the canal.
About 15 boats were stranded and more than 10,000 fish were rescued, but many more died when they were washed on to dry land.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I'm glad they finished the thought on that one. I thought boats would be able to travel through a closed, dried out canal.
more than 10,000 fish were rescued
10,000 fish in a 70 meter stretch of water? That's a lot of fish!
“I’m torry...”
I’m sure a lot of them came from “upstream.”
500 soles were lost!............................
Well, the fish were obviously washed from upstream, not merely contained within the 70 meters.
“Did I do that?”
There’s not a clue who left the lock gates open, but it was an accident by a canal boat owner the article states. No thought apparently to vandalism. Anybody can open those canal gates. Guaranteed when the repairs are done there will be a charge to use the canals, and they will be staffed.
There’s a series on Amazon Prime “Travels by Narrowboat” that shows what it’s like to travel throughout England by narrowboat. Some of it was recorded on Shropshilre Union Canal.
It’s pretty boring but the scenery along the canals in pretty nice for the most part. England has preserved their 18th-19th century canals and they are still in use. I have to think having watched dozens of passages through locks, that leaving them open was deliberate sabotage, likely done late at night.
What a dumb bass. Thank cod it wasn’t worse.
I don’t know why they’re blaming the canal boat user. This is obviously another result of Global Warming.
Yes, eel take awhile to return to normal. I’m herring different time estimates.
Canal boat owner accidentally left locks open causing £3m worth of damage....
.....guy got a Harvard degree “on his merits”.......
What a dumb bass. Thank cod it wasn’t worse.
You are so punny!
This event happened in March 2018......
Telegraph Reporters
7 SEPTEMBER 2018 • 7:00AM
A canal boat user accidentally drained 200-year-old waterway
- causing £3m worth of damage - after leaving locks open. Water
ended up gushing down the Shropshire Union Canal, washing
away the banks and leaving a huge gaping hole in the waterway.
Maybe, halibut he really meant to. Now that would be a whale of a story.
Price of fished dropped for a short time.
But today probably is a different story.
At least cameras.
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