Flooding and silt hitting Fens boating business

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A boat hire company says trade is down 50% due to flooding, and a blocked lock in The Fens.

Tracey Baxter says the business has been hampered by wet weather and silt blocking a main lock on the waterways

The Salters Lode lock, near Downham Market in Norfolk, was shut from early April until mid-June, meaning boaters in The Fens could not access Ely, Cambridge, St Ives or Huntingdon.in May and June, but the agency said further work was being "hampered" by the wet weather and flooding.The Great Ouse at Salters Lode lock has been heavily silted up this year

"A couple in their 80s took out one of our boats in September and are still stuck in Godmanchester because the Great Ouse is still at too high a level for them to return here.

 

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