Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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If you've ever felt your canal boat scrape on the bottom of the canal and wish more dredging was done by the Canal & River Trust, here's an explainer of how dredging is done, why it's so expensive and why they can't do more of it.

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