Kerouac
Thank you for another interesting report. I always find you posts fabulous.

Thanks to all of you. Your photos were excellent, too, f1racegirl!

Thanks kerouac and Whatgello...In 2014 we got off at Jaurès and saw La Rotonde. Then we walked up to Parc de la Villette. So this time, I guess we'll start at Bastille and walk to La Rotonde.

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Actually, the empty canal is not at all smelly. It is basically just mud and sand on the bottom and not "sludge" although I'm sure there must be a few unpleasant areas. There is a current in the canal since there is always water seeping through the locks, so it never really gets stagnant like in Venice.

The other maintenance that is done when there is water in the canal seems to be just surface skimming from what I have seen. They have little barges with a fan shaped scooping net at the front that gets the floating cans and plastic bottles and leaves.

Thanks kerouac! Maybe we will run into each other there next time?

Thank you Kerouac and f1race, I was hoping Kerouac would do a report. f1race yours was a nice bonus. Looking forward to seeing more.

Thanks again, I really enjoy looking at the pictures.

It was because of your original posting and photos that I took my first trip up the Canal to the Parc de la Villette. Then from your later posting, I discovered the Promenade Plantee. Thank you ever so much for sharing your photographic wanderings with us. Look forward to your continued journeys.

No dead bodies yet in the Canal, eh?

Leburta

Visited this area for the first time last October so found this report very interesting. Look forward to the next instalment. Glad it will be all back to normal in time for our return in October this year.

Today there are teams from JC Décaux collecting their Vélib bikes, so I added some more photos.

Can you imagine that some of the headlamps are still working on these bikes?

Thanks, Kerouac, for the great pics...looking forward to more.

We'll be in Paris in May, and biking along the canal sounds like fun.

ssander

The only thing I actually recognized were the shots of the Jardin Villemon, a lot bleaker than it was last June.

Some years ago, the Fore River between Quincy and Weymouth. Massachusetts, had to be dredged when police arrived one morning to find a car sitting on top of the water.

It seems that so many stolen cars had been dumped at this spot that there was just no room for one more!

It's discouraging to see how people treat the canal as a dump.

Yes, but as long as they don't find my in-law body... I'm safe. :-)

Thanks kerouac. I was appalled by the number of bicycles and motorbikes. Very curious about the how and why of some of the other things: toilet?! Ugh.

Thousands of various fish have been moved from the Canal into the Seine.

http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/coun...c624b-55772040

Just looking at the latest photos, kerouac, and wondering what the fascination is as I peered closely at the screen, trying to decipher the various lumps. I know perfectly well, bicycles aside, that it's just garbage and I have no interest in the contents of trash cans and dumpsters. It must be the mystery of what can be under water, no matter how mundane.

The authorities are hoping that since ecological issues have become more important in the last 15 years that people will wake up and not use the canal as a garbage dump in the future.

Wishful thinking, probably...

21 photos of what was found.

http://www.upworthy.com/a-canal-was-...17f15cbeadbb7d

Wishful, indeed. And once it disappears below the surface, it no longer exists.

i enjoyed a ride along the canal in May especially the stories as we went along. Like any urban waterway I'm glad we didn't see what was in it!