Canals closing in Scotland
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Well, if we're going to start rebuilding Viking canals, let's start with this one:
The picture in the BBC article suggested that the canal was much smaller. This picture with the people really puts the size it into perspective.
JumbleDuck
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Indeed. Perhaps the Gallgael people should take one of their boats up it at high tide.
Thistle
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Feel free to take the ones from Edinburgh.
A1Sailor
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East end of Loch Tarbert, Jura, just before a narrowish bit leading to the reach before another shallowish bit before the top pool?Well, if we're going to start rebuilding Viking canals, let's start with this one:
It's a huge 5.2MB image btw...
NormanS
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Rubha an Dunain.
wee_niall
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I've got a vague memory from my school years that when researching the crinan canal with the local archivist that it wasn't technical reasons that the canal wasn't built at tarbert but effectively local politics/land owner disputes that scuppered it. I've got an even more vague memory of seeing plans of the tarbert link....
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dgadee
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My contacts say Clyde canal never got Lottery money. Also says ChExec of Sc Canals slipped away just before this all came out to another job as ChExec of Scottish Enterprise - one of the highest paid public sector jobs in the UK (used to be the highest paid).
BabaYaga
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Not much of a rebuild really, the remnants of the viking thing was only discovered by excavations in 2001.
Came to think of the Spangereid canal, as it is the only example I have heard of where a canal was built exclusively for the benefit of recreational boaters. Cost in 2007 for the 900 meter canal was approximately £3.3 million, which included two bridges and some rerouting of roads. Funded mainly by public money, shared between government, county and municipalities.
The canal saves motor boaters from going out into the bumpy waters outside Lindesnes, the southern tip of Norway, but it hardly makes the passage any shorter.
JumbleDuck
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The re-opening of the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals was partially funded with £33.8m (out of £78m) from the Millennium Commission, which got its money from the National Lottery.
dgadee
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Apologies. I see that funded the Falkirk Wheel. I was thinking of Heritage funding. Forgot about the Millennium source.
JumbleDuck
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No problem. I had to check - you were quite right inasmuch as it had no direct lottery funding.
Thistle
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As reported in today's Hootsmon ... https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/news/glasgows-smart-canal-is-a-first-for-europe/.
Forget navigation, let's use the canal as a drainage ditch.
Seems a pity that they couldn't think about saying "OK, but if we allow you to use the canal as a drain to provide an economic boost to the city, what about giving us some cash to help maintain other parts of the canal?"
Forget navigation, let's use the canal as a drainage ditch.
Seems a pity that they couldn't think about saying "OK, but if we allow you to use the canal as a drain to provide an economic boost to the city, what about giving us some cash to help maintain other parts of the canal?"
ProDave
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Yes no mention of this project aiding or even helping to fund maintenance to keep the canal navigable.
Would you want to live on drained land that relies on technology to pre emt a flood and lower the canal level so there is somewhere for it to flood to? Not me.
And this lowering of the water level is not going to help navigation is it? Once more those pesky boats are a bit of a nuisance to the canal operators.
If they were serious about maintaining navigation, I would expect that statement about this drainage system to have an assurance that navigation of the canal would not be affected.
Would you want to live on drained land that relies on technology to pre emt a flood and lower the canal level so there is somewhere for it to flood to? Not me.
And this lowering of the water level is not going to help navigation is it? Once more those pesky boats are a bit of a nuisance to the canal operators.
If they were serious about maintaining navigation, I would expect that statement about this drainage system to have an assurance that navigation of the canal would not be affected.
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lpdsn
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It's a real pity you can't change thread titles. "Scottish Canals Go Down The Drain"
JumbleDuck
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"Doon a stank", please.
ctva
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We’ll need to watch out soon as Scottish Canals threads will need moved to the non-boaty Lounge.
ProDave
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Non boaty does appear to be their intention.
Aja
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To help those from the lowlands, try "cundie".
Donald