VANDALS who have attacked repair works on Huddersfield Narrow Canal have been labelled as “mindless”.
Their efforts, discovered yesterday morning, mean that a £300,000 repair project will cost even more and take more time.
The vandals have jammed lock gates on a stretch from Slaithwaite down to Linthwaite.
That has caused some stretches to drain dry but others to overflow, damaging the canal towpath.
Engineers who had been working on replacing lock gates at West Slaithwaite had to spend many hours yesterday trying to put right the damage.
David Baldacchino, waterways manager for British Waterways, said: “It is a sad fact that some irresponsible people have been carrying out destructive acts of vandalism on our work sites along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
