Improved maintenance operations at Colwick Sluice Case Study: 025 The Colwick Sluice in Nottingham is a key component of the flood defence apparatus designed to protect the city; one that the Environment Agency (EA) has been upgrading in order to improve the efficiency of essential maintenance work. As part of this project ECS Engineering Services has installed a new semi-automated stoplog deployment system which provides the EA with ‘dry’ access to the sluice gate mechanism, speeding up operations considerably. Periodically the EA is required to carry out maintenance on the sluice gates and in some cases this requires the area around the gate to be inspected which means that the water must be held back just upstream of the gate. This is done using a stoplog system which

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