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 a 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 1999.
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 Millennium Forest for Scotland British Waterways Scottish Natural Heritage Central Scotland Countryside Trust East of Scotland European Partnership Strathclyde European Partnership Scottish Enterprise 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
See also
Canals of the United Kingdom History of the British canal system The Helix (Falkirk)
References
External links British Waterways Scotland page on the Millennium Link Official website, now defunct, but archived by James Gentles Official site of the Falkirk Wheel Falkirk Helix official website