A stack of 5 Tesco trolleys have been dumped into the Grand Junction Canal. They've been lying in there for about 10 days now. If anyone has a boat on the canal please keep an eye out near the railway station/Castle Street bridge. I don't know what drives mindless people to do things like this - it could to injure or down wildfowl, especially with all the newly-hatched goslings around. I tried telling Tesco but spoke to a guy who didn't even know where the canal was! I despair sometimes. He just mumbled he'd "put it on the system" but that was a week ago. I didn't get the feeling of concern from Tesco - I think they couldn't really care less.

Supermarket trolleys dumped in canals is a massive problem apparently - British Waterways have a "trolleys hotline" on 01923 291120 or you can report trolleys online at http://tinyurl.com/63h9o3x

Interesting BBC News report on the problem:
http://tinyurl.com/6dqr4tl

BW don't have the money to even repair the wall, trolleys are nuffin to do with them. The trolley owners (Tesco) are responsible for their property. The Town Council have a Canal & Riverside Partnership (CARP), but the TC have lost the will (still!) to actually do anything. Canal Fields Liaison Group are in disarray. River Bulbourne Partnership have also lost their way. The Canal & Riverside Dacorum (CARD) organisation will want paying as it's a private company I think. Pull them out yourself and someone is bound to send you a bill for damage/litter if you do. Fall in whilst doing it and you get wet and some 'orrible infection. Yep, it's the world we live in.

Never give up.
I've the photos to prove they exist and the Town warden is going to be brave and try to remove them (having shifted the ducks!!)

...and the people who care nothing about the town and do their best to deface it - quite probably attending a nearby institution.....

It looks like the warden didn't manage to remove the trolleys (they are heavy), but naturally made a suggestion or two. The swans with their 3 cygnets, the ducks with their ducklings and 3 white geese are quite a hazard as well!

The warden didn't even try. Last heard of trying to get BW to do it (called pi**ing in the wind!). If the moor was accessible, I'm sure a tow rope attached to a tow bar would heave them out - but 'elf 'n' safety means that a grab lorry is really needed together with a bill to Tesco to concentrate their minds. I did offer to help the warden, but as usual the reporting remit overtook the actually do practical. Blimey, I can remember helping Andy Rolls (1st warden) put up the brackets to keep the Christmas light fittings tidy after the Chamber of Trade walked away and just dumped the lights on the Council. That's what I believed a warden should get involved with, but then............................................

Hence my idea of a tow rope and my 4WD. Keep up the good work!! Now about the graffiti on the Lower Kings Road bridge............................................... Just joking (chemicals in the water are the biggest problem with that one).

"place to loop through the trollies each night in order to stop anyone from just simply taking the trolleys"...... you might have hoped that Tescos were already doing this - shopping trolleys are an 'asset' to supermarkets as well...... I worked on a canalside project in Gloucester where Sainsburys were fined for every trolley that was dumped in the canal.....