Aylestone Park - Slipway Construction
Over two weekends in February 2010, work on the slipway progressed further with more help from WRG volunteers.

 

Planned activities included landscaping next to the new slipway walls, laying paving slabs (for safe boat launching) and fitting wooden fender posts (to absorb shocks when a boat touches the walls).

 

The final excavation of the clay bund was commenced, using a 3 ton excavator driven onto the bed of the canal at the foot of the slipway.

 

Material taken from the bund was removed by dumper and used for landscaping around the slipway. The clay bed at the end of the slipway will be puddled with the excavator bucket to make it watertight.