CROMWELL Lock on the Trent is open again to navigation, with the damaged boom across the weir now repaired.
It was on the 5th December that the boom came adrift, and though Canal & River Trust told that it would be the middle of February before it could reopen, the team completed it early with it open on Monday, Keith Gudgin tells us.
High winds
The exceptionally high winds caused the damage, and with the weir at Cromwell being dangerous—in the past soldiers training on the river were washed over and drowned—it was unsafe to allow boaters to use the adjoining lock.
The original plan was to install a temporary boom until a permanent one could be installed, so it is gathered that this is the temporary one, but there is no intimation as to which one has been installed.