After a period of intense rainfall in early February an estimated 4,000 tonnes of the 18m cutting slipped into the canal. Our team worked through difficult conditions, with continued wet weather saturating the site, to find a solution that involved installing a 300m access road across neighbouring fields and digging down the bank to remove the material from the canal.
Opening times
The navigation will be fully open on weekends, with open ‘windows’ during the week to allow our teams to continue clearing material, rebuilding the cutting and reinstating the towpath. The towpath will remain closed until the early summer, when these works are due to be completed.
From Monday to Friday, free passage is available before 8am, between 10am and 11am, 1pm and 2pm, and after 4.30pm. On Saturday and Sunday, the navigation is fully open.
Boats are asked to wait before Bridge 34 (heading north), or before the Brinklow Arm (heading south), to avoid mooring up within the cutting.