Building a Steel Trunk to Prevent Flooding How It Works and Why It’s Important #UKcanals #Aqueduct

The Future Aqueduct of Chesterfield

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Join me in Derbyshire as we follow the beautiful chesterfield canal as the restoration continues in the west, aiming to plug the gap and join the rest of the restored Chesterfield Canal as it winds its way down to the River Trent.

Today we are at Staveley looking at the second part of the Staveley town deal. Under the massive road bridges and away from the old open cast line which now holds the basin. Here several railways crossed the canal which are now abandoned and the planned HS2 depot was to cross. Now the trans pennine trail needs to cross the canal at a new footbridge that takes the cycle way across the canal. Then the canal follows down onto puddlebanks which is a fascinating area which we explore today, from interlocking clay blocks to a massive aqueduct as the canal goes high on an embankment winding it’s way through towards the Norbridge Arm, Renishaw. Killamarsh and towards the locks and Norwood Tunnel

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and it’s going to be a big steel uh trunk going across and it will be over here it’s going to be supported by two buttresses which are going to have to be pretty big and dug quite far down I think about 40 50t deep they need to be into the ground to support the weight of it so when this was originally in place and the canal closed the environment agency had issues with flooding there were literally just two CTS so two little tunnels running underneath to take the water running through and it created serious flood issues um further down the the river when the canal closed they just dug this all out and this new Aqueduct will just be one big giant span it’ll be really fantastic to see and should draw people to the area actually and that will alleviate all those issues because there won’t be just a CT through like before it will be a proper s of high up aqua