Taplow Weir in flood conditions 12-2-2026

Taplow Weir and bridge sustained initial damage in 2002/3.

See my YouTube videos on Taplow Weir on the Jubilee River in flood conditions on 12-2-2026, including the non-functional control gate and downstream embankment failure due to scour.

THE BIG QUESTIONS:

Why are the EA working on the weir in mid-winter?
Why is embankment unrepaired since December 2024?
Why no stilling basin?

1 thought on “Taplow Weir in flood conditions 12-2-2026”

The three questions that Cllr Larcombe has asked are pertinent, especially the one regarding why has not work to rectify over nearly 18 months since the Datchet Flooding Team raised the issue ,even up to Minster level involving our constituency MP Jack Rankin . It was pointed out to the EA that there was risk to adjacent houses , again this issue has been raised on more than one occasion within the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee meetings and has similarly been raised within the RBWM Flood Liaison Committee meetings . Following the above meetings yet another meeting with the EA took place at Datchet Parish Office on the 22nd January 2026 between an EA team, a representative from The Royal Borough, and the Datchet Flooding Team, relating to their deep concern relating to funding for Repair and maintenance of Borough flood defences .
The EA recognise that this repair work is urgent and that they intend to resolve it this year but as yet have no confirmed date to procced, yet the country and our Borough are currently experiencing high water flows acting against a known unrectified embankment collapse which could have been rectified during the last summer drought.
With regard to not having a stilling basin constructed within the Taplow sluice , which would have mitigated the present uncontrolled turbulence from the gates and which led to the destruction of a number of Jubilee structures in 2003 as noted within the W S Atkins report. Repair of that event resulted in a cost of £10.5M . So why no stilling basin?. Reason that we were advised was that the cost was removed by the EA to satisfy a reduced cost of the whole Jubilee River project Cost.

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