--- In [email protected], David Cragg <dhsrcr...@...> wrote: > > While having the footpath into Newtown it seems that certain persons wanted > to build on the line of the canal - a section that if restored water would > need to be pumped up to to supply the locks. Newtown council were very much > against building on the canal line as they wanted the trade an opened canal > would bring. At this point there seems to have been some backtracking in > public by interested parties. > > It is interesting that councils like the (now defunked) Oswestry Borough > Council actually pay BW money to maintain the Monty through their area. This > sum varies with how much is restored. What the money is spent on by BW is not > known. It is interesting that the agreement was signed with the council > expecting rapid restoration and unlimited boat use (BW always touts the money > from boats at Llangollen as a model.) This was at a time when, unbeknown to > the councils, BW had already sold the water originally earmarked for the > Monty to allow unlimited boat use to Crewe waterworks. In mitigation of this > one might add that at that time (pre eco) back pumping up the various locks > might have been possible but, of course, this is not allowed now - hence the > number of boats allowed down Frankton being fixed at the present level or > less ad infinitum. >
I have put forward a theory in another place, that easiest way to solve the water shortage on the Western end of the Mont would be to to construct a reservoir in the Frankton area that would be supplied from and at the same level as the Llangollen canal. I have yet to "fine tune" the idea though. Regards Pete www.thecanalshop.com
