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...”
500 soles were lost!............................
“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.
I don’t know why they’re blaming the canal boat user. This is obviously another result of Global Warming.
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.
“I forgot.”
“The canal lies in the counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire in the north-west English Midlands. “
Just in case anyone else was wondering where in hell this happened!
I’ve watched a few videos of a guy who “magnet fishes” the canals . The Brits use the canals as a dumping ground. Bikes, safes, guns, motorcycles, shopping carts, all sorts of scrap.
1. When a lock is used, there is no time at which both gates are open, and then is always too much water pressure on at least one of the gates for it to be opened.
2. You could drain water out of the upper river by leaving open the valves at both ends. But it's not clear how this could have caused so much erosion in the lower river since the water flow should not be much more than when the lock is drained normally.
Neighborhood fish fry!
They can now clean the garbage from the bottom of the river in the drained area.
How do you leave a gate open?
There are volumes of canal boat videos on youtube, often labeled “narrow boat”.
The narrow boats are like floating RV’s and the owners often have only minimal water skills. Some of the vids are very comedic.
Achmed did not forget.
This one leaves me scratching my head.....???????