Old West

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

The maintenance programme for the coming season 2009/10 is as follows:-

Weed cutting Chear Fen

No	Drain	Chs	No	Drain	Chs
OW01	Chear Fen Main Drain	47	OW10	Eastlands	72
OW02	Soak Dyke	75	OW11	Car Dyke	48
OW03	Right Wing Drain	73	OW12	Brookside	93
OW04	Wing Drain	265	OW13	Rowels	55
OW05	Two Pole Drain	65	OW14	Oldfields	95
OW06	New Drain	30	OW15	Filter Beds	68
OW07	Beech Ditch	370	OW16	Hatleys	108
OW08	Cottenham Pastures	97	OW17	Hawks	77
OW09	Ten Acre	40	TOTAL		1678 chs

De-silting Chear Fen

No	Drain	chs
OW19	Wing Drain	105
OW20	Soak Dyke	25
OW21	Soak Dyke	100
OW22	Setchell Fen	33
OW23	Setchell Fen	25
TOTAL		288 chs

Weedcutting Queenholme

No	Drain	Chs	No	Drain	Chs
OW24	Queenholme Drain	83	OW34	Causeway Drain	81
OW25	Densons Dyke	120	OW36	Right Wing Drain	52
OW26	Soak Dyke	69	OW37	Soak Dyke	66
OW27	Butchers Dyke	80	OW38	Anthony Dyke	23
OW28	The Shoal	35	OW41	Hempsals Drain	113
OW30	Gilbert Dyke	41	OW42	The Irams	60
OW31	Cottenham Drain	88	OW43	Burgess Drain	106
OW32	Meadow Road	44	OW46	Reynolds Ditch	77
TOTAL					1,138

De-silting Queenholme

No	Drain	Chs
OW35	Smithy Fen Drain (pt)	50
OW39	Company’s Dyke	39
OW40	Sainteus	40
OW49	North Fen Drain (pt)	40
TOTAL		169

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