banny wrote: > London region leaves the gates open, some lock cottages have cellars > which fill with water if the lock is left full so are exceptions. > When canals had commercial traffic we always left the gates open (but > its a can of worms your question)
It tends to be quite specific to the canal one is using. Don't also forget the Lea and the Stort also leave the gates open as well - for no particular reason, except that's the way it's always been. BW will put a notice on the beam if they want it closed (leaky gates, etc) on these two navigations. Other canals are shat all gates - I often wonder why, when on some when you see gallons of water running down the by-washes (Aldlum...) or over the tops of the gates (Aylesbury...), or even having a forced flow (Llangollen...). Personally I hate having to close them - when part of time just as you drive away, the prop wash opens the gate... :-( Ron Jones Process Safety & Development Specialist Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein
