At last - a few days of fine weather!
There has been excellent progress with building the Power House this week. The inside walls are complete. The roof won't be added until the screw and control gear are installed.
We are taking advantage of the lower river level to do some work in the river. The river bed is being excavated at the outflow to provide the best possible topography for assisting the flow of water away from the screw.
The low wall in the river (bottom centre) which sits at the bottom of the fish-pass will eventually be removed in order to ensure that the outflows from the fish-pass and the screw are merged - apparently this will make it easier for the fish to find the fish-pass!
It is a condition of our Abstraction Licence that we do some work on the fish-pass. We will be clearing away some boulders that have accumulated in the fish-pass over many years and are compromising it's effectiveness, and we will be enlarging the 'notches' in the fish-pass to improve the flow through the pass. All this work is being done in close consultation with the Environment Agency. A temporary dam has been erected at the head of the fish-pass to stop the water flow such that the work can be performed.
The picture below shows the front of the Power House. The central shaft of the screw will enter the Power House through the 'window' in the front wall.
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