DEDICATED and hardworking volunteers from the Shropshire Union Canal Society have finished more vital work on the Montgomery Canal – months ahead of schedule.
Using funding from the Rural Prosperity Fund grant, they completed a towpath, canal channel and hedge-laying.
Working near the Crickheath and Schoolhouse Bridges, the volunteers completed the towpath and bank, channel profiling and hedge laying.
The finished channel is now filling with water and it is expected that the stop planks by Crickheath Bridge will be cracked open this month or February to equalise the levels with those in the now navigable Crickheath Basin.
Further along the site towards Schoolhouse Bridge, work continued to profile the channel. In the area worked, no lining and blocking is required and an impressive 70 metres is now complete.
Just beyond this area in the direction of Schoolhouse Bridge, hedge laying picked up from where work had finished last winter. Over two days and with a number of ‘new hands’ available, 23 metres was completed – also impressive.
