Romney Lock Gates: Manufacture, project management and installation Case Study: 032 As part of a £1.8 million investment in the refurbishment of a number of its assets along the River Thames, the Environment Agency (EA) has replaced the lock gates at Romney. This complex part of the project was delivered by ECS Engineering Services as a turnkey solution that involved considerable in- house design and steel fabrication work. Romney Lock was opened on the present site in 1797 and built of oak, but it was later rebuilt by the Thames Conservancy in 1869 and the weir was rebuilt further upstream at the beginning of the 20th century. The lock was rebuilt again in 1979/80 and currently this structure, along with most of the locks on the River Thames, continues to be maintained

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