November before L&L opens

IT WILL be November before the next update on the stoppage on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal will be given, so it will be sometime after when the waterway will be reopened.

In the meantime a great deal of dredging has taken place at the site between bridges 108 and 109 at Rishton, where sink holes where discovered in the canal bed, draining the waterway, Keith Gudgin tells us.

Filled with clay

It was early September when the breach was discovered, at first by the collapse of the towpath, but time has been taken accessing the situation and preparing the repairs, with now the sink holes filled with clay and levelled off.

The next step is to reline the canal bed with a liner, that had to be designed and requires shipping from Germany.  To prevent the waterway downstream drying out, pumps have been installed to feed the affected area.

We are told it will most likely be the middle of November when the waterway will eventually be reopened.