Britain’s biggest canal charity has issued an SOS after finding itself between a lock and a hard place.
The Canal & River Trust is on the hunt of volunteers to help maintain some of the most spectacular waterways in the world.
Be wary of this good cause. Making an old canal navigable again isn’t necessarily good for the aquatic wildlife, or the bats in the tunnels.
Volunteering to make canals navigable for narrowboats …… what next, repairing potholes in my street?
Actually, the FixMyStreet app works fairly well for Bristol as they do get fixed.
Tend to agree with Johns comment about canals, the M1 of canals (Grand union) through Milton Keynes gets very large numbers of boat movements and constantly churned up, no chance for aquatic plants apart from a few odd pockets. Although there are some narrow stips of edge out of the main waterway and out of the heavily trafficed towpath. If canals abandoned completely and loose water then they might be turned back to farmland or some other habitat.