Are you satisfied with the management of non tidal Thanes?

As a boater, are you satisfied with management of non tidal Thames

  • TES

    Votes: 7 17.5%

  • NO

    Votes: 33 82.5%
  • Total voters
    40
Re: Are you satisfied with the management of non tidal Thames?

My main complaint with the EA is the useless management response when there's a lock failure, so a resounding no. Secondly disappointed the 24 hour EA mooring registration etc scheme got dropped. Thought it had lots of potential and could see the results of it being dropped begin to appear again.
 
Re: Are you satisfied with the management of non tidal Thames?

plumbob said:
As the only direct descendant of the Man after whom the saying Nail your colours to the mast is attributed, I'll nail mine.
After a very recent trip to Oxford and being "disappointed" with the number of unlicensed and unnamed boats we saw, no, I'm not happy with the management of the Thames. Why do I pay??? And why do I use pump out when this lot don't.
Tin hat and flak jacket on.
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We pay because we are law abiding citizens and the Thames Conservancy Act and Inland Waterways Order require our boats to be registered to float on Thames water. I frequently point out that the £750 or so I currently pay to register my 34 foot cruiser seems a tad excessive if it is payment for an entry in a register and carries no entitlement to expect specific service delivery or ensure the waterway is fit for purpose. If I had the money I would mount a legal challenge.

i see the number of votes has now risen to 22 - still a fairly unimpressive indication when one considers there are over 8000 powered craft registered on the Thames.
 
Although the number of “votes” has crept up to a more respectable level, I am disappointed that more forum members have not chosen to indicate their view.

Only registered forum members are able to vote in the poll. Should any forumites be sensitive to any possibility of their identities being revealed, I chose to make it a private poll so that identities are not revealed, even to me.

With 32 now having voted, there appears to be a very clear majority indicating that they are unhappy with the current state of waterways management and I will communicate this as opportunity occurs.
 
What I cannot understand is how the EA can allow locks to be double-manned at weekends, e.g. Romney and Boulters, especially in the case of Romney, it’s the first lock that the day boats from Datchet try to negotiated. Bad enough if you are a private boater but the poor people who may have never been on the river are faced with trying get their mooring lines up to the bollards and then after that work out how to operate the buttons.
Added to this, why during the week some locks are manned by two or more fully trained LWK's.
 
Big John said:
What I cannot understand is how the EA can allow locks to be double-manned at weekends,
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They are not double-manned. That expression means that they would have supplied twice the staff normally required. This is an expression invented by the EA PR department to cover the budget cut.
Locks sharing a keeper are half-manned. I prefer split manned, which is more accurate. Perhaps we could all start using this until the EA get the message.
Frankly I have no issues with operating a lock, provided it is functioning correctly. It's the abuse of the English language that riles me!
 
"With 32 now having voted, there appears to be a very clear majority indicating that they are unhappy"

....how many of the 32 have actually expressed their dissatisfaction with the management of the Thames by actually joining or even going along to any of the meetings held by local boating organisations, or contacting directly the management team.
It will take time and effort to change things .
Sit back and your reward will equal exactly what you have put in ?
 
Received to day from Navconsultation <Navconsultation@environment-agency.gov.uk>

Dear Customer,

In early 2018 you responded to our consultation on the Strategic Review of Navigation Charges. Thank you for responding, we value being able to gather views of our customers.

In your response you expressed interest in being involved in workshops to help us shape our proposals for the future of our boat Registration Service. We’re currently developing these proposals, and if approved any changes will be implemented from 2021.

Please could you let us know by Wednesday 25 September, by replying to this email, if you’re still interested in participating in early engagement around these proposals? If your response is ‘yes’, please also confirm which Environment Agency waterway is of interest to you (Upper Medway, Non-tidal River Thames or Anglian Waterways).

If we don’t hear from you by then we’ll assume that you don’t wish to be involved in our early engagement.

Once our proposals are finalised we’ll seek approval to conduct a further full public consultation. At this stage we’ll once again write to all our boat registration customers to invite your responses.

Many Thanks

The Navigation Team
 
Seems to me they don't really know what they should be doing.
I have written several times and been fobbed off with no, or very little half hearted, apparent action on any issues
 
I made a complaint to Barry Russell but it came back with such of lies/half truths I didn't pursue. Contacted by an EA person called Dan earlier this year about getting the lock instructions wording sorted, but that died off & he never asked me to comment/provide input in the end. I think we all regard the workers on the ground/volunteers are great, it's the management who are not up to it! I say put Roger (volunteer, Caversham for many years now) in charge, he has a far better understanding than any of the management.
 
Pump-Out said:
Should the EA be helping to pay for this?
https://www.henleystandard.co.uk/ne...lebration-as-diver-begins-river-clean-up.html

Actually, scrub that.
Shouldn't the EA just pay for this?
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Really nice to see this.
and since the much derided plastic bag ban a notable reduction in bags hanging in bushes and trees.....now for a ban on those poxy single use water bottles and Red Bull cans ?


Bill for "champers" bottles should be heading in the direction of the Henley regatta organisers ...?
 
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oldgit said:
Really nice to see this.
and since the much derided plastic bag ban a notable reduction in bags hanging in bushes and trees.....now for a ban on those poxy single use water bottles and Red Bull cans ?


Bill for "champers" bottles should be heading in the direction of the Henley regatta organisers ...?
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Fat chance of that... Usually reliable inside sources indicate that HRR are unwilling to pay for anything.
 
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