When its a ruddy great hole in the ground of course, top bloke and local boater Springy has sent me some images of the works at Teeces Bridge, Little Bloxwich and works is the right word for them. The culvert is now a trench from one side of the cut to the other with just the ends remaining, as you can see on his photos the culvert was of double layer brick construction built completely round and probably hasn’t seen light of day since being built 224 years ago or something close to it. The stone seen in my previous blog post Surveying the kingdom has been used to create a ramp/roadway for the tracked excavator that’s on site and creating the hole.
There are now 5 pumps running according to Springy 3 transferring water from Pelsall side to the Walsall side and two which are keeping the work site as water free as possible, as you can see from the images the flow from Chasewater is bringing the surface muck on the canal down to the dam.
With the works planned to be completed by July 6th they are cracking on which is lovely to see and after discovering the leak we can have few complaints about the progress made so far. I love the detail Springy managed to get of the brick culvert before it is replaced, I think the guys have probably been too busy to keep a photographic record themselves which is a shame as it would have been interesting to see exactly what the damage was before it was cleared away.
I feel an enquiry to Severn Trent coming on…
The Canalorak 