Water very low.

Taken around the lock area, there had been something wrong with the gates on one of the locks. Although the water looks pretty low here it was even lower when we passed through here in the other direction a few days previous. The boat in the photo was completely grounded and leaning over. We had to stick very carefully to the centre of the channel. A few boats had to be rescued as they had wandered too far off centre.

Photograph taken by Chris Jones on 4 September 2013 and was added to the database on Saturday the 9th of November, 2013

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