this is one major oops ... mid October 2007 ... one of BWW's guys notices the canal water 'flowing' a bit more than usual and being an experienced chap, dropped some stop boards in where he was ..... was several miles further down, before he managed to find someone (on his phone) close enough to drop more in ..... several miles of canal holds a LOT of water, all be it, not phenomenally deep ... but still
A LOT ..... the Mon & Brec. is a contour canal and hugs/follows the lie of the land ... a lot of it is up on the hill sides around here

and water flows downhill ... especially when it finds a way out

...... and there is no way of stopping it
07.00
08.00
an hour later
10.30
it continued on down, from the road to a river below, cutting a.n.other serious channel, through fields as it went, before filling the river and fields with the rest of the scenery it'd just dozed its way through .... one of the brolley bearers, above may well be Pam
I also have a 12 minute video of the scene from the air, taken by Mr Plod ..... I will get strung up for posting it though


.... see if I can get some screen shots from it ... the devastation has to be seen to be fully appreciated
It took several months to just clear and stabilise the scene, aside from the 18 months to rebuild the mountain side through which the canal continues to run today
Breach is a dirty word in the canal fraternity

...... this was the fourth I can recall, in my lifetime.... very luckily all have occurred during daylight hours and no one's ever been killed

