Three years ago, a four-mile section of canal was completed at a cost of £6m - the first new waterway to be built since the Manchester Ship canal opened in 1894 - linking the Lancaster canal with the rest of the canal network.
Worn out by his labours, he died while executing the final section of canal down to the port of Cette (modern Sète) at the Mediterranean terminus.
A section of canal in Stroud has been refilled with water as construction work on a new bridge nears completion.
In weeks, 40 voles were captured, along with 20 more on an old section of canal running through Studley Grange.
"On a 560m (1,840ft) section of canal, we assumed a population of around 45 to 50 voles and caught around 40 animals - which is a decent number".
To calculate the representative land-use fraction of each sampling location, the contributing area was defined using an uni-directional 1 km vector line-buffer around the 'upstream' section of canal.
The study area, a section of canal, is discretized into triangular finite elements with nodes, and the two-dimensional simulation of flow is conducted by the finite element method applied to the steady-state shallow water equations.
The work was not done, the Act lapsed and this section of canal was never built.
The Act included powers to build a short section of canal to link with the line of the Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal.
A new section of canal and an iron lock were built at Beeston in 1827, to resolve continual problems with leakage there.
