Here is the lightweight Batemag 360 Dredger in all its glory wallowing in the canal just by the Mond Golf Course. An unfortunate choice of berth as a rookie sliced a twenty foot drive off the 14th tee and broke the very expensive concave rear window. However, it looks well at home here amongst the six foot or so depth of silt. The waste will be placed behind something called Nikasam meshing held in place by FSC poles at the side of the canal so it will provide a good growing compost.
The work on Walkers Wall, meanwhile, winds on. Stone has now gone on top of the sleepers and, by golly, it is looking good. This is proper Civl Engineering.
Lest we forget, there are those hidden in the vastnesses of the Lock Chamber who work without thought of recognition or glory, endlessly pointing and carrying huge stones and metal bits of tat out of the lock bottom. They too will find honour amongst their countrymen.
2 comments
Creighton Harvey says:
Sep 10, 2015
I know there are are trout, minnows, rudd and eels below the Mond lock but I know little of the fish life above there. Are any fish moved in stretches which are to be drained/dredged? I remember when the canal was filled in at Ynysforgan fish were removed and trout put in the Lower Clydach.
martin says:
Sep 11, 2015
Yes, Creighton, the fish were stunned with a small electric current before dredging and removed from the sections above Clydach Lock and also above the Old Highways Depot up to the Winding Hole opposite the Mond Golf Course. Trout,eels, and lamprey were plentiful and several stone loaches were recovered. The men had to do three runs from Clydach Lock to get all the fish out. They were all moved up to the Pontardawe section of canal. The silt has now been analysed twice in the past two years and it is remarkably clean.