Volunteer hours recorded since April to September circa 19,000 hours. Which is equivalent to 2714 days. Total Volunteer groups 65+ Total Adoptions 21 The Macclesfield Canal have been awarded Green Flag with the Peak forest canal becoming the Second ever canal to be awarded Keep Britain Tidy’s coveted Green Flag Award Macclesfield & Peak Forest Canal is one of 239 parks and green spaces across the North West who are proudly flying a Green Flag Award, after being judged to be some of the best in the country. Little Britain Anglers Littleborough Canal Adoption Group Friends of the Rochdale 9 SVT Group North Staffs Volunteers IWA adoption group - Ashton Macclesfield Victoria Angling Club If anyone is interested in any of our volunteer opportunities at Manchester & Pennine please see: Steve O'Sullivan - Volunteer Development Co-ordinator Huddersfield Narrow East Locks 18e to Huddersfield Narrow Canal 39e Navigation Closure 01-11-2016 21-12-2016 Huddersfield Narrow Canal Lock 1w Navigation Closure 01-11-2016 02-12-2016 Preston Brook Trent & Mersey Canal Tunnel Navigation Restriction 01-11-2016 01-11-2016 Trent & Mersey Canal Harecastle Tunnel Navigation Closure 05-11-2016 15-12-2016 Huddersfield Narrow Huddersfield Narrow Canal East Locks 1e to 16e Navigation Closure 07-11-2016 21-12-2016 Huddersfield Narrow Huddersfield Narrow Canal West, Lock 22 Navigation Closure 07-11-2016 16-12-2016 Huddersfield Narrow West, Lock 16w to Huddersfield Narrow Canal 8w Navigation Closure 07-11-2016 16-12-2016 Trent & Mersey Canal Lock 72 Navigation Closure 07-11-2016 09-12-2016 Trent & Mersey Canal Lock 40 Summit Lock Navigation Closure 07-11-2016 21-12-2016 Ashton Canal Ashton Canal Navigation Closure 03-01-2017 10-02-2017 Ashton Canal Lock 6, Ashton Canal Navigation Closure 03-01-2017 10-02-2017 Peak Forest Canal Marple Flight Navigation Closure 04-01-2017 24-03-2017 Rochdale Canal The Manchester nine, Rochdale canal Navigation Closure 04-01-2017 14-02-2017 Rochdale Canal Lock 49 Navigation Closure 04-01-2017 17-03-2017 Rochdale Canal Lock 82 Great Ancoats Street Navigation Closure 04-01-2017 17-03-2017 Peak Forest Canal Tame Aqueduct Navigation Closure 04-01-2017 24-02-2017 Rochdale Canal Lock 2, Rochdale Canal Navigation Closure 04-01-2017 24-02-2017 Rochdale Canal Lock 59, Rochdale Canal Navigation Closure 04-01-2017 24-02-2017 Rochdale Canal Lock 62 Coney Green, Rochdale Canal Navigation Closure 04-01-2017 24-02-2017 Rochdale Canal The Manchester nine, Rochdale canal Navigation Closure 04-01-2017 17-03-2017 Trent & Mersey Canal Lock 27, Star Lock Navigation Closure 05-01-2017 20-01-2017 Caldon Canal Lock 9 Top Lock Navigation Closure 09-01-2017 06-02-2017 Rochdale Canal Luddenden Foot Navigation Closure 09-01-2017 28-02-2017 Ashton Canal Lumb Lane Bridge, Ashton Canal Navigation Closure 09-01-2017 03-03-2017 Ashton Canal Lock 2, Ashton Canal Navigation Closure 09-01-2017 03-03-2017 Rochdale Canal East of summit Navigation Closure 16-01-2017 17-03-2017 Rochdale Canal West of summit Navigation Closure 16-01-2017 17-03-2017 Peak Forest Canal Ashton Junction, Peak forest Canal Navigation Closure 16-01-2017 03-03-2017 Caldon Canal Lock 11 Hazelhurst Middle Lock Navigation Closure 06-02-2017 06-03-2017 Caldon Canal Bridge 50B London Works Bridge Navigation Closure 06-02-2017 06-03-2017 Rochdale Canal Lock 11 Navigation Closure 06-02-2017 17-03-2017 Trent & Mersey Canal Lock 32, Meaford House Lock Navigation Closure 15-02-2017 10-03-2017 Trent & Mersey Canal Lock 30 Lime Kiln Lock Navigation Closure 15-02-2017 22-02-2017 Rochdale Canal Mytholmroyd Navigation Closure 24-02-2017 17-03-2017 Now on sale, Book your mooring either online by phone, or at our Red Bull Office The Trust MEICA/SCADA team are installing a mobile communication network within Harecastle Tunnel. Vodafone have now installed transmitters at the fan house on the south portal and inside the tunnel keepers hut at the north portal. The transmitters link to mobile cells and send the mobile signal into the tunnel from each portal. The trials with a number of boaters has shown we can’t provide cover all the way through the tunnel reliably. We’re currently looking at a couple of modifications to proposals that should rectify this and will look to introduce this in the next month or two. When the system goes live on 14 November you will be able to book your passages for Anderton Boat Lift and Standedge Tunnel, online. Keep a watch our website • National Grouting 16/17: • 80 and 90 Strines Road Embankment Leak Sealing • Red Bull Aqueduct • T&M Lock 40 • Rochdale Flood Response Repairs • Rochdale Flooding Dredging • Embankment 19 Breach Repair • Cutting 17 Landslip Repair • MA Palmerston St Embankment Emergency Bed Repairs • High Proportion D&E Assets Packages • PF River Tame Aqueduct Repairs • M&P Washwall Repairs • HNC Tail Goit Culvert Repairs • PF Marple Retaining Wall Repairs • Piling at Trentham 50 m • 153 High Priority Works • 16 Gate replacements • 37 Other Stoppages • Prioritisation of worst leaking CRT assets nationally. • Significant proportion of structures in the M&P region. • Polyurethane resin is used to address leaks by targeted injection, behind or into canal and lock walls. • The materials used are harmless to the environment. When the resin comes into contact with water, it reacts to produce a rapidly expanding closed cell foam. This fills voids and seals leak paths, stabilising the ground behind the lock walls. • We use this process very successfully nationwide across our network, working at locks, embankments and washwalls, including numerous listed heritage structures. • Projects Completed to Date: £80k • 80 and 90 Strines Road Embankment Leak Sealing • Red Bull Aqueduct • Remaining Planned Expenditure this Financial Year: £450k • Starting Shortly: • Whaley Bridge Aqueduct (Horse Tunnel) – leaks from the canal through the aqueduct face. • Planned for Winter Stoppage Season: • Huddersfield Narrow Canal • Lock 1 West, Lock 9 East, Lock 15 East, Lock 16 East, Lock 18 East, Lock 19 East • All leak back into the chamberLock when 15 filled Lock 9 and emptied, or around the upstream or downstream gates. • Expenditure: £865k • Works Completed • Woodhouse culvert completely blocked; man entry required to remove large boulders • Culvert repairs to Bottomley culvert; canal bed excavated and new lid cast • 2no. Barrels at Chelburn culvert complete blocked. Canal bed excavated and re-bed masonry lid • Stoodley culvert completely blocked • Lock 2 leakage: Polyurethane grouting to offside • Lock 8 collapsed wash wall: 20m rebuilt • Lock 10 collapsed wash wall: 10m rebuilt • Towpath downstream of lock 12 severely damaged. Wash wall and boundary wall rebuilt and towpath reinstated • Lock 13 ramp scour repaired • Heavy silt and debris deposits in locks 12 & 13 removed • Brearley embankment leakage at 2 locations; polyurethane grouting to seal leaks • Planned Expenditure: £730k • Works completed: • Installation and removal of access ramp and road to remote site • Repaired 15m long breach in canal • Re-built 200m of wash wall • Re-lined 35m of the canal bed • Reinstated allotment area • Repaired Woodhouse waste weir • Re-pointed masonry to Woodhouse waste weir • Installed new wall opposite Woodhouse waste weir • Volunteers cleared bridge hole under Woodhouse bridge • Repaired car park off Haugh Road • Planned Expenditure: £770k • Ground investigations and modelling of the slope. • Design of sheet piled wall to retain slope • Construction Works completed: • Installation of 50 linear metres of 13m long heavy duty sheet piles • Install new drainage behind pile line • Backfill behind piles to provide support unstable slope above • Repairs to discharge point for the stream that runs down the slope • 65m wash wall repairs • 50m canal bed re-lining • Remaining Works • Towpath repairs • Repair drystone boundary wall • Reinstate field adjacent to the slip • Legal discussions ongoing with third party insurers • Expenditure to Date: £910k • Sowerby Bridge to Summit surveyed • Phase 1: 5km of navigation dredged in failing areas between Sowerby Bridge and Lock 13 • 19,000 tonnes material removed between Brearley and Eastwood • Catchpits cleaned between Bearley and Lock 13; Burnt Acres catchpit to be cleared in Phase 2. • Phase 2: Channel is navigable, however, we are aware of localised high spots • Phase 2: Spot dredging between Lock 13 and Summit; majority of material at lock landings and feeders • Phase 2 to include remaining catch pits • Planned implementation: Winter 2016/17 • £1m funding from Calderdale Council to improve wash walls along the towpath • Funding provided to assist upcoming towpath improvement project in the area • 1.8km of wash walls highlighted for repair. • Majority of wash walls severely undermined. Works to underpin worst areas to be included in programme • Pounds de-watered during navigational stoppages • Phase 1: Planned implementation January 2017 – March 2017 • Phase 1: First pound to be de-watered between Locks 3/4 and Lock 5. • Teams to work upstream; aiming to reach Stubbings Bridge this year • Phase 2: Scheduled winter 2017/18 • Works Completed to Date: • 200m wash walls repaired between Lock 16/17 (Embankment 19 breach site) • 65m wash walls repaired between Lock 15 & 16 (Cutting 17 slip site) • 20m section above Lock 8 • 10m section below Lock 10 • 3 week emergency stoppage with weekend working • Voids up to 2m deep and 2m diameter • 30m of canal bed repaired • 40m of washwall sealed with polyurethane grout • Contract price £179k More of the access works – total cost is around £50k for all the work that’s been done • Repair assets in the Manchester and Pennine Waterway. • Improve condition grade from D/E to C or better • Priority list for 4 years from 2015 to 2019 • Works completed to date: • T&M, Marbury Weir: Repairs to weir and access improvements • HNC, Mossley Sluice: Replaced sluice paddle and refurbished paddle mechanism.