Wheel for Sluice Gate on Canal Feeder
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Wheel for Sluice Gate on Canal Feeder
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 14 Oct 2020
Almost all the sluice gates found on country walks are rusty relics from the past, so unusual to see a shiny new operational one. A few yards upstream from the sluice gate, riverside of the canal feeder, are four or five plastic pipes disappearing into the canal feeder bank, with sandbags covering the bottom of their openings to prevent debris causing blockages. Presumably the flow can get quite heavy as the canal, along with its overflow which drops the water to the River Almond about 70 feet below, is less than a mile from here.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.911987
Longitude
-3.43817