EA do a little dredging at Penton Hook........

... thinking about it, I wonder if the EA would be kind enough to bring the same equipment up to Church Island and clear the tree from the inside channel. I pay for my moorings there so it would be good to get access...
 
Gavi said:
... thinking about it, I wonder if the EA would be kind enough to bring the same equipment up to Church Island and clear the tree from the inside channel. I pay for my moorings there so it would be good to get access...
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I suspect that area might not be down to the EA. Who do you pay for your mooring? Who owns the land with the offending tree?

If you are paying for a mooring that you are unable to use because of the tree common nouse suggests there must be somebody from whom you should seek redress?

Go for it - lets see some Forum power ! :D


Oh, and how the devil are you???
 
I am well, thank you. Looking forward to full spring and then summer just as everyone else on here.

We own the back mooring but have to pay the EA for the pleasure of having two posts in the river bed. Will get around to asking for the tree to be cleared. There is sometimes a debate over whether the backwater is a navigable channel, but if I am paying rent then I think it should be clear.
 
Cuchilo said:
I would have thought that having public moorings part way into it that it is a navigabubble channel .
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I agree. Would be interesting to see if this is noted by the EA or I still have to write. To be (un)fair , Colne has been past a few times but seems to have been looking in the wrong direction....
 
Cuchilo said:
I would have thought that having public moorings part way into it that it is a navigabubble channel .
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I presume you are talking about the moorings just upstream of the island alongside the park?
I would expect these to be the responsibility of the local authority rather than the EA and no indication that a navigable channel exists behind the island.

Gavi - is said tree an obstruction that has been swept down from further upriver or has it fallen 'in situ' ?

If 'in situ' would expect the job of removal to be down to the owner of the land from which it fell. If it has been swept down from further upriver would make an interesting topic for discussion but suspect a friendly request to the EA might be one way forward. Dunno how big the tree is - is it something that the residents couldn't sort themselves?

I believe the fee you pay for having posts in the river is not a 'rent' in the accepted sense but, rather, a licence to have the mooring in place. I seem to remember there is/was a word for this - maybe Byron would know.
 
Thats the ones Tony . I seem to remember there being a sign the same as they have at the locks mooring/no mooring . I assumed that was an EA sign so EA public moorings . I could of course be wrong :o
 
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