Report - Sherbourne culverts, Coventry, December 2016

[stranton]

The Sherbourne rises at Hawkes End in Allesley,
heads east passing through 2 culverts beneath Coventry city
merging with the sowe at Baginton by the A45 road
length of about 8 miles.
The culverts start at Meadow street & finish at Gosford street,
with a 20yd gap between them at cross cheaping & a combined length of 1.27 miles.

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thanks

 

[pastybarm]

Liking it, and I noted the pole with CCTV on it to the right in the first piccie. Good report!!

 

[Electric]

Very interesting, thanks Stranton.

I have heard of plans to reopen the Sherbourne in the city centre - don't know if they will ever happen though.

What is the CCTV for then? Just wondering.

 

[Ojay]

Liking it, and I noted the pole with CCTV on it to the right in the first piccie. Good report!!

Looks more like a solar panel to me fella

 

[stranton]

its a cctv camera for monitoring the flow at the infall

 

[Electric]

Thanks for that Stranton.
Thats interesting. Do they monitor it for blockages or problems downstream? I had noticed the cables running down there.

 

[pastybarm]

Yeap, just double checked on google, my eyesight is a bit bad, but it deffo looks like there is a CCTV pointing down right at that structure, presumably running on solar power? Cheers for all replies.

https://c2.s

 

[stranton]

Very interesting, thanks Stranton.

I have heard of plans to reopen the Sherbourne in the city centre - don't know if they will ever happen though.

What is the CCTV for then? Just wondering.

the cctv for monitoring the water levels & accumulation of debris at the grill / mouth

yes theres plans to be increasing the gap at Cross Cheaping &
forming a public walkway

 

[pastybarm]

accumulation of debris at the grill / mouth

Always a problem, and that is a big structure. Some of those in east yorks too, humber outfall of the beverly and barmston drain, but no CCTV as I recall.

 

[UrbanCaving]

You missed the near by trunk sewers

Nice photos though mate. Nice report.