Pictures show the vast scale of an £8.5m 'fish elevator' project to allow them to swim freely up the River Trent. An update from Trent Gateway Partnership confirmed that sheet piling works have been completed, with excavation work now taking place.
Holme Sluices is a huge flood management structure that spans the full width of the River Trent - the third-longest river in the country - and runs to the south of Nottingham. It was built in the 1950s as part of a large-scale flood defence scheme and protects the city from flooding.
However such a structure has prevented fish, such as salmon, from naturally migrating up and down the river. Now, however, pictures from the site show that work is moving forward.
