Another sanitary facility to be closed?

ON PAST procedures, when a sanitary facility fails, the usual method of dealing is for it to be closed, as previously reported in narrowboatworld.

The services at Wolvercote on the Oxford Canal have broken down, with human waste flowing over the towpath and into the waterway, and boaters are expecting it to be closed down, Alan Tilbury reveals.

Well over a month

Boaters are disgusted at the state of the facilities, telling that there is nowhere to empty their Elsan toilets as the disposal point is our of order, and has been in that condition for 'well over a month' boater Simon Hibbs has reported.

Towpath walkers too are complaining of the rubbish strewn around and the overflowing Elsan disposal unit.

Tipped into waterway

Boater face a three miles trip to empty their toilets and a mile to get to a toilet at a supermarket.  With no facilities, we are told that toilets have been tipped into the waterway and hedge bottoms.

British Waterways however blame the boaters, whom it reports have been using the facilities whilst they were being repaired, though the boaters contacting us denied this.