September 2025 - St Ives sluice

Over the last couple of weeks, our incident response team have been deployed to St Ives Staunch Sluice to carry out temporary repairs due to a fault with one of the operational gates. As the situation stands, three of the seven gates are able to be operated. One of the three gates (gate 6) is operating automatically and, if required, the other two gates (gates 1 and 7) can be operated manually. The remaining four gates (gates 2, 3, 4, and 5) remain isolated in the closed position to maintain statutory water levels for navigation.

While we continue with the moderation project for St Ives sluices, we are currently awaiting the delivery of parts to hopefully bring the two manually operated gates back into automatic operation. These repairs would be temporary and given the condition of the structure, may not last long.