In a message dated 09/08/2008 13:47:16 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We passed this way in July and met a chap at Compton lock who was visually surveying the area above the lock as his company had just agreed a contract for 'temporary soft edging' above the lock. I don't know if it is the same system, but around Braunston on the Northern Oxford a few weeks ago they were putting in a double row of wooden stakes through which they threaded some sort of fibre (possibly coconut fibre). Behind this they were putting crushed concrete to build up a firm base and topping it off with dredgings. >From the practice on the Chelmer and Blackwater, it looked to me as though the soft edging was expected to rot away eventually but, by the time it did, the crushed concrete and mud from the dredgings would have consolidated to form a firm edge. DaveD [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
