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Byfleet Boat Club There was a fantastic turnout at the Wey Festival and Byfleet Boat Club was very well represented in the illuminated parade. The Boat Hire season has been very successful including the cleaning of boats and oars after each usage and the introduction of payment by card. We were pleased to welcome back many local residents who were very keen to get back to boating after lockdown. (See picture: members of the public queuing for boat hire) We have just had a great Hire Boat laying up day and managed to get all the boats out of the water, cleaned inside and out and put away in the shed in about 2.5 hours. It was just as well as the rain came shortly afterwards. We are now looking forward to our own illuminated parade which will take place on November 27th Commodore BBC The Wey Fish Pass and Wetland Delivery (FWD) The project has run for three years, replacing historic weirs and adding adjacent fish passes which will open up over 100 km of river to fish between the Thames at Weybridge and the Wey at Tilford. It is scheduled for completion next month. This project: • has completed replacement of all but one of the six historic 1930s River Wey Improvement Scheme flood weirs • includes 4 to 5 fish passes • helps protect 388 homes from flooding • opens up 47 km of the river to the Thames for fish and eels for the first time in centuries. Total cost of all the improvements is £13 million. The Walsham Fish Pass shown with the channel route shown below is a naturalised/hybrid brush channel. Construction began last year. The channel will
