Drawdown 2016

[mlines]

 

[No Regrets]

Nice one! Thanks for those :encouragement:

 

[JorgeinLondon]

Great Pics!

 

[mlines]

PS - if anyone has lost an anchor and chain it is at the base of one of the pillars of Richmond bridge

 

[Chris_d]

PS - if anyone has lost an anchor and chain it is at the base of one of the pillars of Richmond bridge

Are you allowed to just wade in a keep anything you find?

 

[mlines]

No need to wade in, its all gravel and high and dry. Based on the number of people in the middle of the river with metal detectors it appears to be a free for all.!

It was a very large Danforth style and was clearly of no interest to the metal detector fans, perhaps they were also familiar with the anchor debate

 

[No Regrets]

Like a bridge, for example!? :encouragement:

 

[byron]

Fascinating. Thanks for these pictures they're great.

 

[Ian E]

Nice pictures. Great to see. They should do it further upstream too!!!

 

[No Regrets]

Staines: Millions of shopping trolleys and corpses...
:ambivalence:

 

[Chris_d]

Nice pictures. Great to see. They should do it further upstream too!!!

Don't think its possible any further up as the tide doesn't go out !

 

[teddington_lock]

One of those houseboats at Ducks Walk didn't come up with the tide yesterday.

I think it's the furthest one out in your picture. It appears to have settled down on something which has pierced the pontoon floats it sits on.

 

[mlines]

It looked like it had "broken its back" on Saturday as its hull was banana shaped

 

[Pump-Out]

Don't think its possible any further up as the tide doesn't go out !

Just open the weirs in the right order, you'll soon get the same effect!!

 

[Chris_d]

Just open the weirs in the right order, you'll soon get the same effect!!

You could lower the reaches a bit but nothing like the drawdown, the weirs are just overflows so a minimum amount is always there like the overflow in your bath. To expose the riverbed you need a plughole in the bottom which is what Richmond barrier is when the tide is out.
I suppose opening both end sluices on a lock might get rid of enough but it would take a long time.

 

[NEB]

Looks like they are giving it a go upstream ! https://www.facebook.com/KrisCruise...048850489409/1446159648744983/?type=3&theatre

 

[Brayman]

Looks like they are giving it a go upstream ! https://www.facebook.com/KrisCruise...048850489409/1446159648744983/?type=3&theatre

Oh oh, did the lock keeper forget something before he ended his shift?

 

[Time Out]

I believe us locals call it the draw off....

Tedd Lock and I spent our mid teens gathering hundreds of pieces of fishing gear and flogging it to the local fishermen.

It's great fun throwing some boots on and getting stuck in on a Sunday morning (tides dependent of course)

 

[ProDave]

I assume this is deliberate?

May I ask the reason for it?

 

[JorgeinLondon]

They do it so they can inspect and repair Richmond lock. Its done by the PLA (Port of London Authority) rather than the EA.