Is it blocked, breached or just empty?

A POUND on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal is empty, but we are not told how or why.

The pound between locks 8 and 9 of the Worcester & Birmingham Canal in Worcester is empty and the navigation closed, Keith Gudgin tells us.

No intimation

But there is no intimation whatsoever of the reason it is empty from Canal & River Trust, only that it is closed from today, Monday.

All we are told is that it is—and here's a new one!—'That due to circumstances beyond our control, the pound between Bilford Lock (Lock 8) and Blackpole Lock (Lock 9) on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal, is not navigable'.

So is it blocked breached or just empty?  Only time will tell.

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