Eshton Lock repairs delayed by Storm Eunice
ONE of the winter works delayed by Storm Eunice has been the repairs at Eshton Lock on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal where a depression was discovered in the towpath alongside the lock wall last September, writes Colin Wareing.
Canal & River Trust engineers think that water had got in behind the wall and caused it to bulge inwards to the lock.
Repair work has included driving concrete piles into the lock landing before the wall canbedismantled and then rebuilt.
To get the piling equipment in position it has became necessary to fill the lockchamber with stone before the piling could start inmidMarch.
Heavy rain during Storm Eunice had delayed the work and the predictedreopening has been put back from Easter 2022 to May 9.