Can someone explain why the process results in silting up the new/revitalised section, when a little more excavation prior to removing the dam would avoid most of this future work? Great to see new habitats and opportunities opening up!
Thanks for posting. I have frollowed up and had a look at your website. Good to see a clear map and explanation plus the high quality video version and all the other stuff. Congratulations on what you have achieved.
Sorry you were disappointed, but we are all volunteers doing our best, and it was rubbish weather! I recently posted an improved version of our reopening video.
Can you explain why the trust did not use steel shuttering to dam back the water and then simply lift a shutter out with a JCB? Or was there not enough space to work?
There was no access for a JCB because we had already stopped off the other end of the stretch to be rewatered. The towpath (footpath) is too narrow and in any case is quite rightly regularly used for pleasant countryside walks.
JRM would be right! For years now we've been seeing canals being used for transporting g Heavy goods around the country. It's taken thousands of lorries off of the roads.
Hmmm the trouble is this canal arm was a disaster when constructed it cannot have boats on it and there is no real big money to restore if properly . However, in future Wendover will be better known for the new beautiful concrete structures erected in 2022 onwards for HS2 trains and a further 3000+ houses to be constructed on the RAF site post 2025 .
Bertie, while we respect your views, we are already in the process of making it possible to have boats on it again, by relining the leaky sections. Furthermore it will be a great community asset as a biodiverse linear park for all to enjoy, and water will again flow by gravity from Wendover to maintain the Grand Union Canal. We are in the process of raising the money to allow our volunteers to continue their work, why not help us?
Sorry about the quality, it was taken in very poor weather. Some mud was deliberately placed back in the bottom of the canal to weigh down the Bentomat lining, so it does not need clearing.
Thanks for working in the present, on the past to provide a future for this canal.
Can someone explain why the process results in silting up the new/revitalised section, when a little more excavation prior to removing the dam would avoid most of this future work?
Great to see new habitats and opportunities opening up!
The silt weighs down the Bentomat lining, without which it would be liable to float!
Thanks for posting. I have frollowed up and had a look at your website. Good to see a clear map and explanation plus the high quality video version and all the other stuff. Congratulations on what you have achieved.
Thankfully everyone was wearing hard hats and hi-vis clothing. The loss of life without such attire, doesn't bare thinking about.
Buoyancy aids (life jackets) would have been more appropriate instead of PC hard hats and high vis!
They really do go way overboard with the safety stuff.
@John Duffy A bat survey and an environmental report too!
Wonderful to see canals being restored.
Well done, so good to see. Every success!
Well done guys great to see the wendover arm restored again
I didn't think that anyone still had a 1992 Casio Calculator with a Camera.
Well done everyone. Would like to see another video when it fills
Not something I would normally follow but it looks like a real red letter day. Well done lads.
Bob
Great stuff. Everyone's effort is appreciated.
Why is it only letting me watch it in 240p it's very grainy I can't watch it like that
Congratulations on your latest success from California.
Why wasn’t it cleaned out before the water was reintroduced
The mud in the bottom has to be there to weigh down the Bentomat lining
Perhaps a call to Cruising the Cut may help get even more publicity and funding...
I am sure David would be only too pleased to make a vid on this....
Wonderful.. Congratulations !
0:59 nobody sounded happy lmao
Great job!
With that number of Hi-Vis Green Jackets I thought they were going to use dynamite to breach the dam!
Congratulations everyone
Aloha from Kilauea Volcano
Congratulations from down in New Zealand, we have no canals, before rail brave me sailed our coastlines.
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Lovely sight. 😎
Would be really beneficial to your channel if you upgraded your camera.
Sorry you were disappointed, but we are all volunteers doing our best, and it was rubbish weather! I recently posted an improved version of our reopening video.
How did they know it wasn't going to leak ?x
Can you explain why the trust did not use steel shuttering to dam back the water and then simply lift a shutter out with a JCB? Or was there not enough space to work?
There was no access for a JCB because we had already stopped off the other end of the stretch to be rewatered. The towpath (footpath) is too narrow and in any case is quite rightly regularly used for pleasant countryside walks.
Could you have uploaded it on a lower quality. 🇬🇧👍😂🤣
JRM would appreciate the use of canals again as in Victorian times!
JRM would be right! For years now we've been seeing canals being used for transporting g
Heavy goods around the country. It's taken thousands of lorries off of the roads.
California needs water lets make a canal towards cali.
what was this thing for?
why the hard hats are they worried the canal will fall on their heads lol
During the construction there is actually plenty which can fall on our heads, and we have to work to best safety standards.
hasn't anyone among you got a better camera than a tesco imo? :O
1:35 council wallah makes speech!
Hmmm the trouble is this canal arm was a disaster when constructed it cannot have boats on it and there is no real big money to restore if properly . However, in future Wendover will be better known for the new beautiful concrete structures erected in 2022 onwards for HS2 trains and a further 3000+ houses to be constructed on the RAF site post 2025 .
Bertie, while we respect your views, we are already in the process of making it possible to have boats on it again, by relining the leaky sections. Furthermore it will be a great community asset as a biodiverse linear park for all to enjoy, and water will again flow by gravity from Wendover to maintain the Grand Union Canal. We are in the process of raising the money to allow our volunteers to continue their work, why not help us?
@@wendovercanal Sorry chum too busy making a fortune on HS2 !
What early 2000s camera is this?
The weather was very poor and we are working on better footage.
240p Goodness.
1992 Casio Calculator!
@@wendovercanal whats the weather got to do with it just admit it the quality is terrible. 🇬🇧👍
Oh come on will
my Box Brownie Camera, takes better photos and did anyone consider clearing the canal before releasing the water ?
Sorry about the quality, it was taken in very poor weather. Some mud was deliberately placed back in the bottom of the canal to weigh down the Bentomat lining, so it does not need clearing.
240 p that it come on who even films in that in 2011 I mean 2021
please, my updates
A great achievement spoilt by being filmed in potato vision.
Er I think an error is made, they should have cleared up the other section first before letting the water flow. 🙄
Happy to explain if you could clarify your question please?
What a poor quality video.
No info on where this is, what County or indeed country its in and completely inaudible speech…. and you expect people to donate funds, get a grip
We're a small charity of volunteers restoring a canal near Tring, Herts, UK. Come and see why it's so worthwhile!
Why don’t you use your brain and look at the video description.
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