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02/1/2025 at 10:23pm
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I've just watched some youtube coverage of the Bridgewater Canal filmed by a youtuber who was up at 6.30am on New Year's Day wondering what was going on.
The canal boat was moored and he was awoken by the ropes straining, the whole boat then lurched and listed. On getting out he noticed the canal was flowing like a river. Boats listing, one broke its moorings and was across the canal. They were above third of a mile from a huge breach of the bank and the canal is now more or less drained. They managed to get the boat away from the bank so it has at least settled level, but repairs will take months.
We are near to River Aire and a few weeks before Christmas they completed a multi million pound scheme to prevent flooding similar to 2015. From what I saw the scheme is already preventing flooding of properties downstream.
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03/1/2025 at 3:09pm
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In January 2021 the river here reached a new high, and there was flooding we hadn't seen in the 22 years we had been living here. This time it was even higher, and flooded again. It doesn't bode well for the future!
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Quote: Originally posted by Fiona W on 03/1/2025
A friend lives in the affected area. A container full of materials for the allotments got washed away.
Flooding happens there regularly, but was made much worse this time by the canal bank failing.
Plenty of photos on official news outlets.
After Boxing Day 2015 floods a local charity had two twenty foot containers washed into the River Aire. One beached about 2 miles downstream, but it was badly twisted, door open, all contents gone and had to be removed by crane. Incredibly the second was never found. Suspicion is it broke up and is still in the deep river channel as there are too many shallow sections and weirs downstream.
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via mobile 02/1/2025 at 4:14pm
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