Items in uk.rec.waterways

Subject:Re: commercial carrying on GU
Date:Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:24:56 +0100
From:"Mike Stevens" <mike.fc2@which.net>
Newsgroups:uk.rec.waterways
dave hill <dave@davemh.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> There was a snippet regards commercial carrying on GU on &4 at
> 08000hrs today (wed).
>   Its a new aggregate flow from pits beside the canal.

It's from a gravel pit at Denham to a concrete-mixing depôt at West
Drayton, being carried in motor barges.  I was up at our mooring a
couple of days ago (which is on the route) and the towpath telegraph
said that they were having a bit of problems with the depth, and BW were
considering dredging the relevant length (including our moorings).

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Mike Stevens, narrowboat Felis Catus II
Web site www.mike-stevens.co.uk
No man is an island.  So is Man.