This “in river” project with 6 new features is drawing to a close. We had the worst summer for water for years, the works were flooded out twice and 5t rocks were bowled over like tennis balls at Wimbledon. But we got there in the end and the Washburn Calendar releases went on unabated. The new features are not perfect, and, still need tweaking, and, in particular the play wave at the stepped weir is not as good as we would like. We are going to have attempt at placing the rocks in the just the right place with our Tonka Toy, just as soon as we can. The newly acquired bottom car park located in the former Yorkshire Water wood yard will be ready for the BUSA event in November. So I think we can chalk up a cautious success here, so far at least.
Left to Right: Giles Bernard-General Manager, Corrine Germain-Engineer, Marie-Jose Lavorel- Project Assistant, with Andy Maddock of the BCU. In the foregraound are prototypes and test pieces of the 3rd generation of Hydrostadium's patented "In course", "Omniflot" obstacle system. 1st and 2nd generation omniflots can be seen back right. Picture: Chris Hawksworth.
"Andy Laird of EPD Ltd supervising a "Tonka Toy" placing rocks to the weir pool below the stepped weir - River Washburn" Photo: Chris. Hawkesworth.
"Paddlers trying the newly constructed "Put in", located directly below Thruscross Dam,
River Washburn". Picture:- Chris. Hawkesworth.
See PDFs on right to open latest drawings of the Upgrade Proposals.