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River Thames Scheme – £100m spent where?

Posted on January 20, 2026 by ecwlarcombe

This is the text of an FoI request to the EA from IS

Dear Mr/Ms Customers and Engagement Team – Thames Area,

My email below is coming on for 3 weeks old.

I think we’ve concluded that you can’t legitimately spend £13,177,648.21 on Project Management, without producing a single project Status Report in any form as this highlights ‘Governance’ issues.

No recognised Project Management Methodology exists which fails to report and measure the Status of a project against the 4 PM fundamentals, which are Time, Cost, Quality and Risk.

The RTS PSRs now need to be in the Public Domain, given that the spend exceeds £100M with nothing tangible to show for it.

I appreciate that this might all be somewhat embarrassing for the Agency but, exposure may actually assist with the implementation of critical infrastructure which was scheduled for completion 4 years ago.

Yours sincerely,

I.S.

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DATCHET

The name "Datchet" is thought to be Celtic in origin, and the last part may be related to cet ("wood"). In the Domesday Book it is called "Daceta".lla. Datchet is first mentioned between 990 and 994, when King Ethelred made small grants of land here.

HORTON

The village name "Horton" is a common one in England. It is Old English in origin and derives from the two words horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'.In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Hortune.

WRAYSBURY

The village name was traditionally spelt Wyrardisbury; it is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'Wïgrǣd's fort'. Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wirecesberie and as Wiredesbur in 1195. The name is seen again as Wyrardesbury in 1422.

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