Great weather

• victor matcham

  • Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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  30 September 2025     11:43387489
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  great out in the garden cutting the lawns and planting. sitting in the garden feeding the birds.
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8,397
  1 October 2025     12:01387496
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  Wet. Wet. Wet. Fri/Sat.
  
  ( Leicester Line of Grand Union Canal STILL closed to navigation due to low water levels. )
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,931
  1 October 2025     17:52387499
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   Captain Haddock wrote:

  Wet. Wet. Wet. Fri/Sat.
  
  ( Leicester Line of Grand Union Canal STILL closed to navigation due to low water levels. )

  
  
  Do lock gates no longer stop the water disappearing (eventually) out to sea?
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• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8,397
  2 October 2025     00:26387502
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   Jan Higgins wrote:

  Do lock gates no longer stop the water disappearing (eventually) out to sea?

  
  
  'My' marina Crick is at the SUMMIT of the Leicester Arm.
  
  If I go left I can go DOWN Watford Locks and right I can go DOWN Foxton Locks, each time losing a lock-full of water (about 30,000 gallons), which is why the Canal and River Trust have literaly locked the locks for the past few months!
  
  The canal is normally filled from Welford Reservoir which is extremely low (worst since 1893 apparently).
  
  This situation is attributed to a period of dry weather, with England having its driest spring in over a century.
  
  FWIW Yelvertoft Marina, just up the canal from me, had to put in stop-planks (dam up it's entrance) so boats would still be floating whilst IN the marina!
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  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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  2 October 2025     08:16387505
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  Thanks for the explanation.
  
  Thinking of future prolonged dry spells maybe pumps will need to be installed to some locks to return lock water back upstream.
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