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Rotating Waterway Wall


Mike Todd

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A stoppage notice just received describes the work as "Works are to be carried out on the Tardebigge Flight to repair the rotating waterway wall"

What is a 'rotating waterway wall'? (and how do you parse the expression anyway: is it a waterway that rotates or a wall?)

Not an term I have come across before.

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Rotational slip, rather than falling over the bottom of the wall starts to slide and the bit above follows in a curve, going down and sideways in pursuit

I like the idea of a rotating waterway though, although preferable a slow rotation rather than something akin to a blender :wacko:

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14 hours ago, 1st ade said:

Although "repair the wall" will draw comments of what's wrong with it; the clarification is that the wall is in one piece but moving!

It's a case of overcondensation. "...repair the wall, which is rotating towards the canal" would say it all without confusion.

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Lock maintenance is a facet of keeping the waterways open. Yet the construction techniques used at the time of building on occasion required rectification at some point in time. Building the Worcester & Birmingham Canal was a long process, with the locks between Tardebigge and Worcester being constructed over a period of some five years. Some of the locks on the approach to Worcester lacked the overspill weir. The top lock is much deeper as it replaced the boat lift that had been installed there.

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