The case of the missing case….

Some cracking photos of the breach area sent in today by roving reporter Phil Griffin again, they appear to show a depression in the canal bed roughly along the line of the culvert but definitely running across the bed of the canal, not something that could have been caused by boat movements.

The shadow seems to highlight a depression in the canal bed running from the tree stump in the middle of the canal towards the opposite bank.

Now this could just be a trick of angles but it was mentioned to me yesterday by Springy who sent in the photos I used in last nights blog but as he said it didn’t quite show up on his pics as it did to the naked eye. The siting of the floating debris around this depression is another reason why it stands out, again pointed out last night by Springy.

Something Phil mentioned was the flow of water heading towards it as well, while the dams are doing an excellent job in holding back the main body of water the amount of silt on the bottom means there is a type of osmosis under the dams which leads to the trickle of running water seen in Phil’s and Springy’s photos.

An abandoned case, who knows what it contains. But this image shows the water running around the case, showing the direction of flow towards the leak.

Phil spotted this and got a close up of the area the water seemed to be running to and disappearing, makes it so easy to write these blogs with the quality of the photos that are being sent in. If I haven’t said it before I really appreciate all the time people are taking to visit the site and take the images they send in, you peeps rock.

Closer view of the running water near the breach.

As you can see from the pic the water is pooling in the foreground and running away from the camera towards the depression Phil and Springy mentioned.

Some video footage on facebook shows the direction of the running water really clearly, Paul Cox shared it into the BCN society page heres the video kindly sent to me by Paul.

 

Not sure where they send the invoice for finding the site of the leak, but maybe they can stand in a small group and talk about it for a while on site.

 

Ignore the building materials, The Bobster found them on google maps in situ before the breach occurred however the circular construction just in front of the white stacks in the centre of the left hand image might be the chamber for the culvert. It sits on the line of the depression mentioned above and you can see there is no cover on it, so is it being used to access the culvert below or has someone half inched the cast iron cover? Only CRT can answer that one.

Hopefully we’ll see some action in the next few days, the dewatered section has dried out nicely in the heat we’ve had the last few days and while I wouldn’t particularly like to be traipsing through the stinking mud I’m sure the guys from CRT will be holding their nose and ploughing on.