Progress Wey & Arun
Down in the deep south, the Wey & Arun Canal Trust have a threepronged attack going with visiting groups and their own volunteers working on three different sites
has to be tackled, from retaining wall construction to reprofiling sections of the canal With activity increasing on the canal’s which have not yet been worked on. VolunSummit Level restoration, extra help is teers will also partially demolish the 1930s needed in organising the various groups of causeway which the bridge is replacing, with volunteers and the work needed to comthe possibility of exposing the remains of the plete the project. The Wey & Arun Canal original canal bridge buried in the concrete. Trust is seeking an assistant for Dave And with planning permission and finance in Evans, Compasses Bridge site manager place, a new small boats slipway will be built and leader of the Summit (Northern) south of Compasses over the spring and Working Party. summer. As the contractors near the end of Anyone who can help Dave organise their involvement in construction of the the work needed on the Summit Level – in new bridge at Alfold, a collection of tasks advance of the official reopening of navigation in October – should email WACT chairman Sally Schupke at sally_schupke @weyandarun.co.uk. Members of the Newbury Working Party Group (NWPG) spent a weekend in November in the Compasses area, working on channels for cabling across the bridge among other tasks. London WRG volunteers have also been at Compasses, altering a drain outflow and creating a bund to allow a section of the canal to be drained, plus preparatory work for moving a water main and getting ready for brickwork on the new bridge. Recruits to the Summit (Northern) Working Party, which meets on the third Saturday of the month, will also be welcome. Email Dave Evans on de@weyandarun.co.uk to join up. Visiting volunteers have also been busy on other Surrey sections of the canal. The WRG Forestry WRG trio on W&A: London WRG locate buried pipes at Compasses... Team removed overgrown Pitures by WACT
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