{"id":321167,"date":"2025-08-06T00:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321167\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:37:14","slug":"low-west-midlands-canal-water-levels-slow-and-strand-bargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321167\/","title":{"rendered":"Low West Midlands canal water levels slow and strand bargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Narrowboat owners have been disrupted, and some stranded, by low water levels after parts of the West Midlands canal network were shut due to extended dry weather.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The closure of the lock flight at Minworth means the Curdworth section of the Birmingham and Fazeley canal is impassable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lock flights are also closed at Wolverhampton, Rushall in Walsall, Cheddleton in Staffordshire and Coventry, which the Canal &amp; River Trust said would continue until prolonged rainfall replenished supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One owner, Tom Chadwin, said he had not been prevented from doing anything he needed to, but &#8220;it has slowed us down quite a lot&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Narrowboat owners have been disrupted, and some stranded, by low water levels after parts of the West Midlands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-321167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}