Report - Leen culverts, Nottingham, December 2016

[stranton]

A lot of time & dedication went in this lot, during 2 consecutive days
saying that the tram became a useful tool.
There's some nice features along a mainly concrete structure,
including 2 sumps one beneath the canal & another merging with the Trent.

The leen rises at Annesley in Nottinghamshire,
heads south passing through Bullwell, Basford (joined by the day brook) & Radford
merging with the trent at the Meadows in Nottingham
length of about 15 miles.
Theres 14 culverts along the route, many designed by Marriott Ogle
ranging from a few to several hundered yards long.

Bulwell culverts
1

2

3

4

day brook culvert &
merging of the day brook with the leen

Basford culverts
5

6

7

thanks

 

[stranton]

cont
Radford culverts
8

9

10

A6200 culverts
11

the waterfalls fast flowing with chest deep water

12

the side pipe continues towards hospital with chest deep water

13
railway culvert

side pipe with 2 penstocks semi closed, there about a foot open submerged in water

left penstock

Trent culvert
14
discharges in the trent via 2 submerged sumps with sluice gates on the opposite side

right sump

sluice gates

thanks

 

[coolboyslim]

Damn m8ty that's some work there . Nice and thanks for posting. Hope you had your cossey on for the deep bits lol...

 

[concreteJungle]

Good work. I started to look at the Day Brook a bit further upstream a few years back. There was a large mud filled detention pond and potentially interesting looking bits but all looked really low and stoopy so sacked it off.

The Tottle Brook looked like it had potential, have you looked at that?

 

[stranton]

The Tottle Brook looked like it had potential, have you looked at that?

no, likely on a return visit though

 

[TheVicar]

Good stuff!

Nice to see these done back to back.
Is there much in the way of CSO action in any of those culverts?

 

[stranton]

Is there much in the way of CSO action in any of those culverts?

The 2 on this thread,
one with chest deep water & another with a 90% closed penstock.
There's some a long the route, 2 open but stoopy
the rest either had grills or caps on them.

 

[Punk]

Well done
There's a few bits and bobs on tottle brook, if I remember correctly lady urethra is on tottle brook.
It's interesting to see that the gate is slightly open in beef curtains, I assumed it would only open when the channel filled up.

 

[UrbanCaving]

Good to see Beef Curtains and Duality being done again.