In message <bf32cg$aa79d$1@ID-170573.news.uni-berlin.de>, Mike Stevens 
<mike.fc2@which.net> writes
>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).
>

  Well the conveyor belt wouldn't play ball for the interviewer. It 
refused to start there was lot of cat awalling in the background 
machinery running danger noises.
  As for the dredging it seems to be a 'minor' problem throughout the 
system.
-- 
dave hill