Marland wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:10:36 on Fri, 9 Aug 2019,


Also not straightforward to dump loads of water into the canal system.

Although it's incredibly straightforward. One bloke just needs to open a
handful of sluices (to use a generic name).


Last week I took a gander at the CART stoppage notices for the Peak Forest
canal , the closure notice wasnt
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.

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