Welcome! Spring forums April 2015 1370 Notification have now been - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome!

Spring forums April 2015

Numbers Closed Waterway Delivered 357 Rochdale Canal 36 MB&B Canal 228 Huddersfield Canal 299 Macclesfield Canal 242 Trent and Mersey Canal 164 Peak Forest Canal 44 Ashton Canal

1370 Notification have now been closed in Manchester & Pennine Waterway for 2014/15 Numbers per waterway are captured below

Notification Type Numbers closed Access Problems 23 Antislip Problems 5 Bound Stone Surface Problems 15 Brick Problems 28 Concrete Problems 15 Earth Structure Problems 10 General Problems 292 Grass Surface Problems 62 GRP Problems 1 Hard Bank Protection Problems 18 Leakage Problems 90 Masonry Problems 138 Metal Problems 147 SCADA Problems 51 Siltation Problems 10 Soft Bank Protection Problems 13 Tarmac Surface Problems 9 Timber Problems 157 Unbound Stone Surface Problems 32 Unprotected Bank Problems 14 Vegetation Problems 240

• The type of notifications

delivered in 2014/15 have varied in type and scale

• Starting from simple paddle

and gearing repairs to larger scale piling works on the Trent & Mersey and Rochdale Canals

• 1100 Visits were carried out
• n 683 Assets.
• Access improvements were

also carried out to some of the structures to facilitate better inspections and maintenance

• 6 Asset types currently have

PPM Scheduled against them. Locks, Moving bridges, Weirs, Sluices, Culverts & Aqueducts

Marple Lock 2 Open Day, November

Huddersfield Narrow: Lock 37E Lock 34E Lock 32W Lock 19W Lock 18W Lock 9W Lock 1W Lock 27E Lock 35E Lock 20W Rochdale: Lock 76 Lock 92 Lock 2 Lock 8 Trent & Mersey: Lock 76 Harecastle North Tunnel Portal to Turnover Bridge Little Leigh Embankment Saltersford Access Track Preston Brook Tunnel to Soothill Bridge Peak Forest: Lock 3 Lock 2 Marple Aqueduct

• New visitor moorings in Macclesfield
• Service blocks refreshed
• HNC headgear – upgrades and spares

• Bosley Feeder Bridges

Toddbrook Reservoir – Feeder Handrail

• Washwall works at : Harecastle Tunnel;

Saltersford; Middlecale Embankment; Adlephi Mill

• Embankment Improvements – Little Leigh, repairs

and investigations; Dryhurst Embankment; Broadhurst Embankment

• D,E Assets project – improvments to 12 sluices, 5

weirs, 3 aqueducts, 1 lock

• Bosley Reservoir – deferred – cost

• £200k spent on off-side vegetation
• 100% on T&M, Macclesfield; 33% on Peak Forest; £25k on

Rochdale

• Washwall saplings throughout
• Reed clearance on T&M (£20k); £6k on Pennywort
• £35k on fallen trees;
• Tree management £40k (works to around 300 trees)

Next…

• Offside veg to HNC and Peak Forest
• Works to feeders
• Other routine

• Peak Forest – Strines – now on site
• Peak Forest, Lock 2
• Peak forest – Woodend Lift Bridge
• Rochdale Canal – Locks 2, 76 and 92
• Rochdale Canal - Highroyd
• Little Leigh Leak
• Ashton Canal – Lock 10 – broken gate

Our Welcome Station at Red Bull has been running since the summer of 2013. There are 6 regular volunteer greeters. We hold regular events through the year such as guided walks, open days, meet and greets. We held a very successful end of season event on 31st October last year, over 30 visitors attended and most turned up in fancy dress! To kick off the season this year we held a gardening event to spruce up the area around the Welcome Station and Red Bull office, spreading wildflower seeds and planting bedding plants kindly donated to us by Goldenhill Garden Centre.

Our Welcome Station at Bosley opened on Tuesday 21st April with our new volunteer greeter Roger. We are looking for more volunteer greeters at the Bosley site to work alongside our volunteer lock keepers to enhance the visitor experience for all users.

Volunteer Greeters Janice and Roger at our Bosley Welcome Station on it’s opening day.

• Total number days :
• 4842 days (34065 hrs)
• 16 Adoptions
• 4 Volunteer leaders
• 2 Welcome stations – Red Bull and Bosley locks
• 50 + community and interest groups
• 4 corporate events with 3 more planned in May and June
• New Volunteer lock keepers at Marple, Bosley, Middlewich

and Littleborough.

• Education volunteer groups from Kirklees college in

Huddersfield

Lyme view volunteers fitting drainage ‘Can You Dig It’ at Elton Reservoir

Thanks!

Works well underway including –

• masonry repairs
• repointing
• painting of pattress plates
• repairs to cramps
• repairs to the trough
• towpath
• Vegetation management.

Consultation – The consultation regarding the installation of a fence on the offside is now closed and we are collating the results which will be available very soon.

A £600k investment has been made in the Marple Aqueduct on the Peak Forest canal on works including re- pointing, masonry repair, towpath resurfacing, access improvements, painting of pattress plates, concrete channel repairs and vegetation removal. The project was funded through the Canal & River Trust Friends Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund as part of the wider 3-year Revealing Oldknow’s Legacy Project.

To date £700k has been invested in the Ashton Canal. The works have included towpath surfacing and access improvement. A further £600k will be invested over the next few months which will include wash wall repair and the installation of a new ramped access as Guide Bridge. The works will be complete in July 2015 and have been funded through the Department of Transport Cycle City Ambition grant.

Canal Location Dates Duration Macclesfield Lock 4 12/10/15 – 13/11/15 5 weeks Huddersfield Narrow Lock 15E 08/02/16 – 11/03/16 5 weeks Huddersfield Narrow Lock 19E 08/02/16 – 11/03/16 5 weeks Huddersfield Narrow Lock 24W 04/01/16 – 13/02/16 6 weeks Huddersfield Narrow Lock 38E 04/01/16 – 13/02/16 6 weeks Peak Forest Lock 9 16/11/15 – 25/12/15 6 weeks Peak Forest Lock 15 16/11/15 – 25/12/15 6 weeks

* High Proportion D and E Assets 15/16 - 16/17 * Washwall Repairs 14/15 - 15/16 * Peak Forest - Wood End Lift Bridge Bosley Reservoir * Trent & Mersey - Ollershaw Lane Bridge Huddersfield East Dredging * Trent & Mersey - Lock 63 Stabilisation * Macclesfield - Knowsley Road Bridge Macclesfield - Richmond Hill Retain. Wall Rochdale - Todmorden Lk 19 Guillotine * HNC - Slaithwaite Lock 24E Trent & Mersey - Embankment Slip Lock 75 Peak Forest - River Tame Aqueduct Rochdale - Turnover Bridge * Peak Forest - Collapsed Retaining Wall Marple

Canal Location What Trent & Mersey Lock 63 T/S Top; O/S Top; O/S Bottom Lock 48 T/S Bottom Lock 47 T/S Top; T/S Bottom Lock 42 T/S Bottom Huddersfield Narrow Lock 10W Top & Bottom Lock 11W Top & Bottom Lock 23E Top Macclesfield Lock 7 Top