Stroud Canal Restoration
28th June 2013
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A water feeder channel has just been created between the new channel at Capels Mill and Wallbridge Lock. A special Swedish-designed and built amphibious excavator was used. Its operator Damien Hobbis did all the work in reverse and explained: "I started where I was afloat and worked backwards to allow the Capel's water to follow me down to Wallbridge."

The Stroud District Council-led Cotswold Canals Project is undertaking the reopening of the waterways and its spokesman Dave Marshall said: "This was a stop gap measure."

 

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Anne C

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We live in the northern half of the Cotswolds near Chipping Norton, and have been here for 25 years - we love it, and we hope you do too!

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