--- In [email protected], "Peter Stockdale" <peter.jea...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], David Cragg <dhsrcragg@> 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
>
Sorry, for Western -please read Eastern !
