Further Breaching of the Bridgewater Canal from flooding. New Years Day 2025 - Little Bollington

[@markgirdlestone2276]

Good footage of the surrounding areas and the bridge Richard. You have covered some areas that the other you tubers has missed. The River Bollin will take away most of the water going into the Manchester ship canal. It joins up near Lymm golf course. The floodland fields are clay heavy so it will take some time to settle. When I was a kid living in LB the fields rarely flooded but now floods a few times a year. Whether it is global warming are all the new housing estates further up the RB. The breach is still happening it has been slowed down by the temp barriers at Agden Bridge and the bridge at school lane.

[@Pulp_Riction]

Thank you for the kind words Mark. I like to try and get the whole picture in perspective as much as possible. It is worrying to see that the reinforced walls that were put in place after the 1971 breach, as still collapsing. Hopefully the aqueduct will hold. Hope you're well doing well. All the best to you

[@markgirdlestone2276]

@Pulp_Riction you too Richard. I'm doing ok. Best wishes to you and your family. M

[@markgirdlestone2276]

What baffles me is the amount of sand in the bank. Is this a normal for a repair. I'm not a builder but wonder.

[@pixiewolf01able]

​@@Pulp_Rictionhiya do you live at the old p.o? my nan lived next door for a very long time !

[@holmanator79]

I went running on the tpt yesterday before I knew about this and couldn’t get my head around how the surrounding areas were just like lakes. The tpt itself was above knee high in places. Madness

[@bearded653]

wow this is mad, thanks for getting this out thar nice one ,new sub🙏

[@Pulp_Riction]

No worries. Thanks for the sub!

[@davidcoombes412]

It breached in exactly the same place in 1971. The outflow from the canal has gone into the River Bollin, about 20ft below, and will drain into the River Mersey/Ship Canal.

[@JamesChriston]

Wow!

[@nighttrain1236]

The flowing water is eroding it really badly now.

[@Pulp_Riction]

yeah. I hope the aqueducts hold up

[@VikingGrazers]

Never seen the Bollin so high! What a mess. What is it like near Ye olde number 3?

[@Pulp_Riction]

@VikingGrazers it was ok this morning. However, the government flood map is showing a possible flood next to it check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/?v=map-live&lyr=mv,ts,tw,ta

[@ChB7124]

Dear God, what a disaster. Bet CaRT are glad they're not picking up the bill for this. 😢

[@gendy943]

This will take years to repair & cost £millions .. no sailing along the Bridgewater Canal for some years to come.

[@horsenuts1831]

They will just place stop-boards on either side of the breach and there will then be two separate canals until they fix it (but I expect it may be too expensive to achieve judging by the fact that the old piling has been washed away from underneath).

[@Ecstasio]

😶... bloody hell

[@alanleggett5752]

Luckily, it happened at night realy, you imagine if people were travailing along the canal when it breached, there's not a lot you could do once you're being taken along in a flow of water like that surely once you realise it would be to late ...

[@bigchris80]

Rip all those fish. Country, and it's weather, ARE ON IT'S ASS! nice video pal.😪🙏

[@Pulp_Riction]

@bigchris80 cheers dude. Stay safe

[@phil4455]

No locks, so canal will empty out

[@KazOgonHolmes]

There are places along canals where they can lower in huge planks across the canal to dam the water back on either side of the breach. This is a very serious breach though and will take years to repair and cost millions. I lived right next to the Bridgewater Canal until I got married. My parents lived there all their lives. Our back garden backed onto the footpath that ran from Butts Basin in Leigh to Hall House Bridge. There was a crane and huge planks at Hall House Bridge for the very purpose of damming the canal in case of a breach. I expect it's all still there but I haven't been along the canal for about 40 years or more. When I was a child our nextdoor neighbour was a caretaker/maintainence man who's job it was to look after a stretch of canal from Butts Basin to I think up to Marsland Green, Astley, may have been further. He had a maintenance barge and chugged up and down removing debris and checking all was ok with everything. I've heard on the grapevine that the owners of the canal aren't maintaining it as it should be and once was. A local historian and councilors, just a few months ago, were battling with the holding company to get Great Fold Bridge repaired as it was in a very dangerous state. The last I heard was, they were successful and the company had started maintenance work. If they company don't look after the canal there will be more of these tragic incidents and they may well end up in Court on counts of gross neglect and dereliction of duty. I understand adverse weather conditions played a part in this incident but what I don't understand is why the canal became so flooded anyway. In all my born days I never known the sections of the Bridgwater where I lived to flood. To my mind something isn't right and something that should have been done, hasn't been.

[@geoffcollier8736]

Water levels sluices should be kept clear to stop water levels rising in spells of heavy rain. Question over maintenance of these drains or sluices? Amazing what a big earthmover can do these days but civil engineers need to be involved first. Who pays?

[@KazOgonHolmes]

@@geoffcollier8736 the little man

[@HR-od9fl]

Daft music in background 😂

[@Pulp_Riction]

Lol 😂 noted

[@Lakesdave]

Flipping heck mate it’s bad isn’t it. Is your mums house still flooded.

[@Pulp_Riction]

Luckily the house is a bit higher up. So we're ok for the moment

[@Lakesdave]

@ that’s good mate. On the first video you could see your mums with the barn building in the back garden. Is that the right one mate. I loved your mums cooked dinners. They were the best lol 😂

[@RebeccaMassey-jj9cx]

New year New river I guess