Helping to transform the Grand Union Canal

Updated: 5 November 2013

We've been working with Watford Borough Council and the Canal and River Trust to resurface a three mile section of canal towpath...

Thanks to the dedication of a group of volunteers and investment from local Councils which included £70,000 from Three Rivers District Council, a stretch of the Grand Union Canal in Watford and Three Rivers has been transformed. 

Over the summer, volunteers from the Waterway Recovery Group (WRG) helped restore one of England’s most attractive canal bridges while, just to the south, contractors working on behalf of behalf of Three Rivers District Council and Watford Borough Council spent three months resurfacing a three mile section of towpath...