Posts Tagged ‘canal maintenance’
Friday, December 23rd, 2016
More facilities for boaters are planned on the K&A. In a meeting between K&A Manager Mark Evans and representatives of liveaboard boaters in which refuse and sewage disposal facilities, water taps and maintenance were discussed, Mr Evans said he was looking at providing an extra water tap on the eastern end of the canal, possibly at Thatcham.
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Tags: canal maintenance, complaints, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, enforcement team, facilities, liveaboards, Mark Evans, refuse disposal, refuse facilities, towpath tidy
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Friday, November 25th, 2016
The K&A is actually being dredged. Well, not completely dredged, but spot dredged in some of the worst places.
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Tags: canal maintenance, continuous cruising, dredging, FOI request, Freedom of Information Act, liveaboards, Long Pound, Mark Evans, mooring
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Sunday, December 13th, 2015
The Caen Hill flight will re-open on 19th December at 8am according to CRT. However the towpath between locks 47 and 50 will remain closed until 23rd December and the full repairs to the towpath will not be carried out until February or March.
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Tags: Caen Hill, canal maintenance, stoppage, vandalism
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Saturday, November 7th, 2015
CRT closed the Caen Hill flight until further notice on 30th October after engineers reported that the condition of the towpath and embankment had deteriorated further after the towpath between locks 48 and 49 was washed away.
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Tags: Caen Hill, canal maintenance, stoppage, vandalism
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Monday, September 30th, 2013
For most of this year boaters have been advised not to moor between Elbow Bridge (174) and Limpley Stoke Bridge (175) due to the risk of falling trees. CRT will be felling trees on this stretch starting in October.
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Tags: canal maintenance, tree cutting
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