Millennium Link
The Millennium Link is one of the biggest engineering projects ever undertaken by British Waterways. The Union Canal and the Forth & Clyde Canal were originally joined by a flight of locks. The Millennium Link project replaced the locks 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.
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 and District Canal Society based at Camelon, Falkirk
- Paisley Canal and Waterways Society
- Scottish Inland Waterways Association
- Forth and Clyde Canal Society
- Linlithgow Union Canal Society
- Seagull Trust
- List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom
Falkirk Ecopark
A follow-up project known as the Falkirk Helix with plans for a new large boatlift named The Kelpies.