The Macclesfield Canal has become the first ever canal to be awarded Keep Britain Tidy’s coveted Green Flag Award The 26 mile Macclesfield Canal is one of 239 parks and green spaces across the North West who are proudly flying a Green Flag Award, after being judged to be some of the best in the country.
The Trust MEICA/SCADA team are installing a mobile communication network within Harecastle Tunnel. The objective is to enable boating customers to contact the emergency services from within the tunnel should the need arise Propagation testing was initially undertaken by Vodafone and their specialist contractor .NET to ensure the proposed system would work. Once this testing was proven to give a reliable mobile signal throughout the length of the tunnel an order was placed. Vodafone have now installed transmitters at the fan house on the south portal and inside the tunnel keepers hut at the north portal. The transmitters link to mobile cells and send the mobile signal into the tunnel from each portal. Contractors are currently on site commissioning and testing the equipment which is likely to be completed by 22 nd April. Upon completion The Trust will test the system. The Fire service have requested an invite during the test. Users on the Vodafone network will be able to make voice calls from inside the tunnel. Uses on other networks will be able to make emergency calls (999) The project cost is 35k. Manchester & Pennine Waterway and the IWA have assisted with the project. Special thanks to Mr Jon Honeysett for kindly taking Trust staff through the tunnel during the initial testing.
Landslip at Cutting 17 (between Locks Breach between Lock 15 and 16): Channel 17 and 16: Breach through blocked. Kier mobilised embankment approx.2m to dig a channel to install high through adjacent temporary pipes to allow allotments into River Calder. a bypass flow. House at Approx.15mtr section has the top of the slip has failed. Waste weir on this lost part of the driveway. section also failed. Boil in the bed of the canal upstream of the waste weir.
Void in Towpath between Br 2 and 3 Towpath has scoured on Severe damage due ramps adjacent to 14 x to overtopping Locks and in many between Lock 12 and places the service ducts 11. 3 x boats hung up: Lock 19, Stoodley Weir, are exposed Lock 14
Severe overtopping damage Severe river erosion at Embankment 13
Van in the river at Hebden Bridge Severe towpath damage
Elland Road Bridge Crowther Bridge (Council owned)
• Destination Management Plan completed − Local Stakeholders interviewed − Wants and needs of users explored and evaluated − Researched local area and competition to ensure there was a need for the current offer − Evaluate the use of owned assets to ensure they are used to maximum potential
• Recruitment of Summer team − Including new Visit England course for Exceeding Customer Expectations • Investment into the Café − New Coffee Machine − Multi Deck Chiller • Trip Boat Refurbishment – thus protecting our assets for the future • Sale of Event Space in the Thomas Borne Room, 50% increase year on year • Increase in School Trips increased by 50% to date
Below Lock After 14 Wash-out / scouring damage from flood water. Note – the exposed cable / fibre-optic ducts exposed. After – Cable ducts suitably protected ( and positions recorded ) and the Stubbins Wharf – towpath reinstated Typical of the damage and top- incurred along the dressed. Rochdale Canal.
Lock 11W HNC Off Side Quadrant. Repair involved hand digging to a suitable level, installing concrete ‘mini - piles’ by hand, concrete foundation and wall rebuild. All of this work was undertaken by our recently recruited Craft Operative, Wayn Dawe and an Agency operative. Before After Lock 9 Ashton canal Due to the extent of masonry repairs within Lock 9, all to be pointed with lime mortar, the decision was made to encapsulate the lock. Cape / Vinci undertook Encapsulated lock the scaffold works. Before During After T&M Embankment repairs Bridge 209 All works undertaken with one Team – that has the capability to mobilise a piling operation to all locations
Macclesfield Canal Bosley Lock 7 Head Gate replacement Rochdale Canal Lock 91 Tail ramp paving repairs.Note special order paviors with imprinted rope pattern.
Peak Forest – Captain Clarke’s Bridge 7 Below waterline void. Before During After Piling at Anderton Before During After
National Lock Grouting: Bosley Reservior WIORS Peak Forest Lock 6 Ollershaw Lane Bridge Peak Forest Lock 14 Lock 63 Stabilisation Peak Forest Lock 15 Knowsley Road Bridge Macclesfield Lock 4 HNC Lock 24W Dredging – HNC West High proportion D and E Assets packages
Project, completed February 2016, to undertake essential masonry repairs to the bridge caused by vehicle impact and settlement as well as the installation of traffic lights to prevent future damage. The Project was part funded by Cheshire West and Chester Council with a total cost of circa £170k
Old deck and parapets dismantled, repointing and repairs to abutments above and below water level, old outer beams and parapets refurbished and painted so that they can be re-installed to replicate the appearance of the bridge, inner bridge beams replaced with pre-cast units, new concrete deck, waterproofing, resurfacing, reprofiling of bridge approaches and repairs to a collapsed section of towpath wall, ramp handrail repainted. After Before
DURING: The piling work to stabilise the AFTER This shows how the lock was Before Offside Lock on the far left is complete. The reinstated to better than when we concrete for the tie beams and waling beams arrived; lock arcs reinstated in brick on the lock island is about to be poured. The paving rather than concrete, relaying widening work to the Towpath Side Lock is quadrants, paving reinstated where it ongoing. Work that you can’t see is leak had subsided, turfing to allow boaters sealing, replacing masonry, pinning masonry, to use the lock as soon as work grouting, repointing work, repairs to invert, complete. sealing leaks on interconnecting culvert, bywash culvert repairs. Work completed by Direct Services – 3 gates changes and 2 sets of stop plank grooves re-lined.
The by-wash culvert, known as Tail Goit Culvert, which is associated with Lock 26E has collapsed. The culvert passes below the lock by- wash, which has on several occasions collapsed into the culvert. There is a risk that if the culvert becomes blocked, overtopping and flooding of adjacent properties could occur. This project will aim to determine the cause of the collapse and leakage into the culvert and then repair the culvert or the wash wall or both.
The aim of the investment is to create a traffic free cycle / multiuser route along the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal from Radcliffe towards Farnworth, Bolton. The route would serve large residential areas including Farnworth, Little Lever and Radcliffe. The investment in the canal towpath forms part of wider plans to develop Radcliffe into a cycle friendly district. The surface of the canal towpath varies in quality and west of Radcliffe is only passable by mountain bikes and is not currently suitable as a commuter route. The route will also link up with other existing and proposed cycle routes linking the town centres and residential areas. The proposed multi-user route stretches for 3.3km between Basin Lock 1 to Bridge 17a School Street footbridge.
• Prioritisation of worst leaking locks nationally • Significant proportion in the M&P region • £400k – November to March 2016 • Polyurethane resin injection to target leaks and seal their flow paths • Successful process and heritage approved • Numerous listed structures have been worked on • Prevents further deterioration and reduces failure likelihood
National Lock Grouting 15/16 – Locks 3, 6, 9, 14, 15 PF Marple, Lock 4 Macc and 24w HNC - £340k spent across M&P on 7 locks combined (photos attached) All locks included in the Winter programme were prioritised due to issues with leakage. Polyurethane resin injection was undertaken at all of these; once injected, on contact with water it spreads to follow its path and solidifies to seal the leaks and stabilise the ground behind the lock walls. This method has been used extensively across locks (including listed structures) nationwide for several years as a non-intrusive, but targeted approach to solving lock defects associated with leakage. Marple Retaining Wall Lock 15 Lock 9 The collapsed section of retaining wall below Lock 7 on the Marple flight is planned for repair M&P Washwall Repairs 16/17 during the Winter stoppage season, from the As part of a rolling programme to prioritise high risk sections of beginning of January 2017. The repair will be a washwall across the M&P region, approximately 100m of wall reinforced concrete retaining wall, with reclaimed will be repaired close to Bridge 207 on the T&M, using trench masonry facing and the section of adjacent road sheets and anchor tie backs, where the existing concrete will be re-aligned back to its original line coping has failed. Further works to other nearby sections on alongside the canal. the T&M will be completed from 17/18 onwards.
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