A family lost its dog in the sluices today. Poor things. The dog was off the lead and decided to take a swim in one of the lower side ponds of the Foxton flight. They look pretty, these ponds. But their purpose is to take 100 tonnes of water each time a lock empties and to feed that back into the lock below. All that water empties within 3 - 4 minutes. The dear dog had no chance and was washed straight through the sluices. Both bottom ponds had to be emptied, boats wait and family comforted... but still the dog remains somewhere in the system.
