Millennium Link
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The Millennium Link is one of the biggest engineering projects ever undertaken by British Waterways. The Union Canal and the Forth & Clyde Canal were joined by a flight of locks. The Millennium Link project replaced the lock with an ingenious and unique boat lift, the Falkirk Wheel.
The project launch was in October 1994, and it received a grant of £ 32 million from the Millennium Commission; the total cost of the project was £ 78 million.
Work started in 1998.
[edit] Partners in the Millennium Link project
- City of Edinburgh Council
- East Dunbartonshire Council
- Falkirk Council
- Glasgow City Council
- North Lanarkshire Council
- West Dunbartonshire Council
- West Lothian Council
- Millennium Commission
- British Waterways
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Central Scotland Countryside Trust
- East of Scotland European Partnership
- Strathclyde European Partnership
- Edinburgh Canal Society
- Ratho Union Canal Society Association - now defunct
- Falkirk & District Canal Society based at Camelon, Falkirk
- Paisley Canal & Waterways Society
- Scottish Inland Waterways Association
- Forth & Clyde Canal Society
- Linlithgow Canal Centre or Linlithgow Union Canal Society
- Seagull Trust
[edit] Follow-up project: THE HELIX - FALKIRK ECOPARK
known as the Falkirk Helix with plans for a new large boatlift - the Kelpies
