What might this 'drain' be?

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Thu 23 Aug, 2012 7:42 pm

Hi Leodian i have had some nice pearch from the steps in your photograph.The down side is when a barge comes to go into the lock you have to move so they can go up them to open the lock gates.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 23 Aug, 2012 7:54 pm

tilly wrote: Hi Leodian i have had some nice pearch from the steps in your photograph.The down side is when a barge comes to go into the lock you have to move so they can go up them to open the lock gates. Hi tilly.I did not venture to those steps but I thought they looked as if they were in use but I did not think of fishing. With the cleaner river now it's no doubt a good spot to fish.

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Fri 24 Aug, 2012 9:29 pm

Have a look at this it quite clearly shows the undercover dock which is just like the one at Dock StreetCanal Basinhttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... Y=FULLDock Streethttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... SPLAY=FULL

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 24 Aug, 2012 9:48 pm

Thanks buffaloskinner for those excellent links.The drain is under the far left of the building in the Canal Basin photo and so it seems that it may be a remains of a drainage system from that once undercover dock. The trickly discharge when I took the photo will be water that is comimg from somewhere, but where? I shall have to look at the drain in wet weather to see if there is an increase or not in the water coming out of it, as if there is that would imply there is some surface runoff into the drain. I suspect though that the water is just some seepage that is getting through the now blocked off entry from the canal.