Pictures show the vast scale of an £8.5m 'fish elevator' project to allow them to swim freely up the River Trent. An update from Trent Gateway Partnership confirmed that sheet piling works have been completed, with excavation work now taking place.
Holme Sluices is a huge flood management structure that spans the full width of the River Trent - the third-longest river in the country - and runs to the south of Nottingham. It was built in the 1950s as part of a large-scale flood defence scheme and protects the city from flooding.
However such a structure has prevented fish, such as salmon, from naturally migrating up and down the river. Now, however, pictures from the site show that work is moving forward.
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Colwick Country Park, which is owned and run by Nottingham City Council, will become the hub for the Trent Gateway. The Colwick (Holme Sluices) Fish Pass will be the largest of its kind in the country, costing £8.5m to build, and will serve as a 'ladder' or 'elevator' to allow fish to hop up and downstream. The direct environmental benefits of the fish pass will be £18.6m, the Environment Agency says.
A tweet posted by Trent Gateway on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 31, read: "Colwick Fish Pass update: all the sheet piling works are complete, we are on with the excavation for the fish pass and also the concrete capping beam works continue. #trentgateway #fishpass #rivertrent #salmon."
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