boddington and clattercote

peter crabtree said:

I have just been speaking to a friend of mine who works for the Trust. He told me there is only one body (The reservoir inspectorate) which can make a decision to carry out any major programs on these waters. My friend is in regular contact with the team of 6 who make up the Inspectorate and told me he has heard of no such plans....

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jasonbean1 said:

peter,i do have to admit to being a bit naughty here...basically i just made it up.

i do however have concerns in these resevoirs and how they're used though. as you may know these resevoirs are feeders for the oxford canal. you may or may not know that the river cherwell for most of it's length runs beside the canal. at various points the canal takes water from the river should it need it.

my problem is..... these resevoirs are now commercial fisheries and ran along those lines to make maximise profit. thats why they stuffed them with carp and shoved as many pegs on them as they could. so in the summer when the cherwell is running at low flows and the CR't want to keep running the resevoirs as fisheries and protect there stock and profits they are reluctant to release water from them...understandable i know but it adds to the damage that the cherwell suffers nowadays.

As chester knows the cherwell around banbury dries up in the summer and any water the canal needs is abstracted from the cherwell just north at cropredy...so it's simple the less water that comes out the resevoirs the more water comes out the cherwell.

what you have to remember is..the resevoirs were built to keep the canal running not as fisheries.

the CR't are no way interested in river conservation...they have the law on there side to seriously damage rivers by abstracting as much water as they want from rivers to keep canals running and at the moment they plan to finish the cherwell off by building a massive marina close to oxford. if it was to go ahead the massive jump in lock movements would drain further water out of the cherwell at shipton...finally putting the nail in the last few barbel that just about hang on that strectch and below.

so personally i would like to see this resevoirs along with wormleighton drained dry at the end of a long hot summer because at least i woud know they have been used for what they were built for and the CRt had caused the minimal amount of damage to the cherwell.

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