Prescott Channel

The Prescott Channel

The Prescott Channel was built between 1930 and 1935 as part of a flood control system for the canalized River Lea in the East End of London , England . It is named after Sir William Prescott , then Chairman of the Lee Conservancy Board. Parts of the demolished Euston Arch were used in 1962 to improve the canal.

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The Three Mills Lock is a lock in the canal that made it possible to move goods to the 2012 Summer Olympics through the river construction , which stopped the tides in this area and further north in the River Lea. The lock was built between March 2007 and June 2009. The construction was intended to not only make it possible to transport goods, but also to create more opportunities for recreational use of the waterway.

A major improvement was seen in the fact that adjacent land is no longer exposed to the risk of flooding, which increases its value and more than outweighs the cost of construction.

In 2009, when the sluice was built, 29 stones were recovered from Euston Arch from the watercourse. Another stone was recovered from there in 1994.

Criticism of the expansion

The Three Mills Lock was completed ten months after the original deadline, so it was of limited use to the construction work on the Olympic Park. Furthermore, the goods transport for the Crossrail project should be handled here. In reality, however, there was very little commercial shipping traffic on the route.

In August 2013, a long hot dry spell was followed by heavy rainfall, which washed a lot of polluted surface water into the watercourse. This led to an oxygen deficit and an associated fish death, which made the consequences of the no longer existing tidal influence clear.