"Dave Wedd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From Hansard, 6.2.07, written answers: > > Inland Waterways: Repairs and Maintenance >Charlotte Atkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and >Rural Affairs what planned winter maintenance work and repairs British >Waterways has (a) cancelled and (b) postponed in the winter of 2007 as a >result of reductions to its grant in aid; and what the locations and value >of >these works were. [118277]
The following ones look rather worrying. It is leaks through embankments, culverts, and aqueducts that tend to lead to the worst breaches. These can not only be very expensive to repair, but can carry serious risk of death or injury. OTOH, fixing the problem before it gets critical tends to cost a LOT less. Deferring not only the work on these, but even the investigations into the cause of the leaks looks like very false economy to me. For want of a nail ... Adrian >Rowington Embankment, >Grand Union Canal >250,000 reduced investment: Reduced >investment into refurbishment-there >will still be a winter stoppage > >Shenton Embankment, Ashby >Canal >540,000 deferred: Piling works to >embankment deferred >Roddlesworth Embankment, >Leeds and Liverpool Canal >300,000 deferred: Stemming of leakage >through embankment and raising the >height of the wash wall both deferred > >Denham Culvert, Grand >Union Canal >174,000 deferred: In-depth investigation >into the integrity of the structure >deferred > >Milton Keynes Culvert, Grand >Union Canal >176,000 deferred: Repairs to two >culverts deferred > >Tividale Aqueduct, Old Main >Line >133,000 deferred: Aqueduct repairs >deferred > >Calverley Wood >Embankment, Leeds and >Liverpool Canal >485,000 deferred: Embankment >refurbishment deferred-reduced >scheme planned for 2007-08 Adrian Stott 07956-299966
