VITAL work completed by volunteers has ensured the Cromford Canal restoration continues to progress.The team from the Waterway Recovery Group (WRG) worked tirelessly to complete preparation work at the site at at Beggarlee, Langley Mill, Derbyshire, so the main canal restoration work could take place.
The group has donated nearly 700 hours to the project, co-ordinated by the Friends of Cromford Canal (FCC),which has had more than 5000 hours of work completed by volunteers in recent years. The WRG dug out a flood channel, removing up to 3000 tons of soil, and did other work at the site, which is on the border of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
A FCC spokesman said: “The digging out of the flood plain extension is necessary to compensate for land that will be taken when the channel and locks are built. “Two archaeologists were on site during the digging out of the flood plain, just in case anything was discovered, which was the case with the old original lock (Marshalls Lock) appearing.”
More work is due to take place to ensure flood water, which gathers in the channel, can drain down to the River Erewash.
