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 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