Old West

The Drainage Office, Main St, PRICKWILLOW, Nr Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4UN , Tel.(01353) 688296

The maintenance programme for the coming season 2011/12 is as follows:-

Weed cutting Chear Fen

Number	Drain	Chs	Number	Drain	Chs
OW01	Chear Fen Main Drain	47	OW13	Rowels	55
OW02	Soak Dyke	75	OW14	Oldfields	95
OW03	Right Wing Drain	73	OW17	Hawks	77
OW05	Two Pole Drain	65	OW18	Landbeach Spur	15
OW06	New Drain	30	OW19	Wing Drain	105
OW07	Beech Ditch	370	OW20	Soak Dyke	25
OW08	Cottenham Pastures	97	OW21	Soak Dyke	100
OW09	Ten Acre	40	OW22	Setchel Fen	30
OW10	Eastlands	72	OW23	Setchels	25
				Total	1396 chs

De-silting Chear Fen

Number	Drain	Chs
OW44	Davids Dyke	95
OW46	Reynolds Ditch	77
OW47	Reynolds Ditch	80
OW48	Reynolds Ditch Spur	22
OW49	North Fen Drain	164
OW50	North Fen Catchwater	44
	Total	482 chs

Weedcutting Queenholme

Number	Drain	Chs.	Number	Drain	Chs.
OW24	Queenholme Drain	83	OW37	Soak Dyke	66
OW25	Densons Dyke	120	OW38	Anthony Dyke	23
OW26	Soak Dyke	69	OW39	Company Dyke	35
OW27	Butchers Dyke	80	OW40	Sainteus	30
OW28	The Shoal	35	OW41	Hempsals Drain	113
OW29	Soak Dyke	14	OW42	The Irams	60
OW30	Gilbert Dyke	41	OW43	Burgess Drain	106
OW31	Cottenham Drain	88	OW44	David Dyke	95
OW32	Meadow Road	44	OW46	Reynolds Ditch	77
OW33	Soak Dyke	96	OW47	Reynolds Ditch	83
OW34	Causeway Drain	81	OW48	Reynolds Ditch Spur	22
OW35	Smithy Fen Engine	180	OW49	North Fen Drain	164
OW36	Right Wing Drain	52	OW50	North Fen Catchwater	44
				Total	1,901 chs

Most of the drains will be maintained with the Bradshaw weedcutting bucket.
Flailmowing will take place ahead of Bradshaw weedcutting and de-silting.
All works will be carried out in accordance with the Board’s Conservation Statement