In article <HH1fIevRQ$ snipped-for-privacy@perry.uk, Roland Perry snipped-for-privacy@perry.co.uk> writes
Probably. No very visible and not as exciting as fire engines and lots of pipes and pumps. Also not straightforward to dump loads of water into the canal system. The pumps were emptying into the river.
In message snipped-for-privacy@ghcq.uk, at 13:10:36 on Fri, 9 Aug 2019, bert snipped-for-privacy@bert.bert.com> remarked:
That's gets my vote for the most likely answer.
Although it's incredibly straightforward. One bloke just needs to open a handful of sluices (to use a generic name).
And they will have calculated whether there was going to be any collateral damage downstream. The river doesn't have infinite capacity any more than the canal.
Last week I took a gander at the CART stoppage notices for the Peak Forest canal , the closure notice wasn?t that informative and just said they were drawing down water in a controlled manner from the reservoir and that the Peak Forest Canal was closed as was the Bosley flight of Locks on the Macclesfield Canal. The latter joins the Peak Forest just above the Marple flight of the Peak Forest so may suggest that the CART staff had closed the Macclesfield Locks so no additional flow from there would hinder what had to be got away from down the Peak Forest from Whaley Bridge and down through the Marple flight.
Interesting when they started to rescind the navigation restrictions on the 7th they referred to removing stop planks from bridges on the Peak Forest Canal.
Putting stop planks in a canal you want to drain down quickly seems counter intuitive but maybe it was an insurance in case the dam did breach in attempt to break up any possible large discharge from that. So none the wiser really from the stoppage notices. Perhaps only some stop planks were in permitting some flow but allowing staff the possibility of quickly inserting the last to full height quickly if required.
Will have to keep an eye on one of the waterway periodicals over the next issues to see if details come out.
GH
Silly me ,my Canal geography memory is slipping . The Bosley flight goes down from the area not feeds it.
Still that means that closing the Bosley flight to navigation would allow some discharge down the Macclesfield and into the Trent and Mersey and onwards.
GH
In article <D99+ snipped-for-privacy@perry.uk, Roland Perry snipped-for-privacy@perry.co.uk> writes
No but the river's capacity is much much greater.
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