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<p>The Environment Agency reports the condition of the essential navigation assets
such as locks, landing stages and canoe portages on a quarterly basis. Assets are
considered to be at a required condition if they do not have any defects that significantly
reduce the performance of the asset, or adversely increase the safety risk to the
public or Environment Agency staff.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency regularly
inspects all navigation assets. If there is a safety risk to members of the public
then repairs will be undertaken to remove the risk or the asset will be closed.</p><p>
</p><p>The information in the table below relates only to expenditure associated with
navigation assets within Anglian Region. The Environment Agency also invests money
on other assets and in-river works that provide benefit to navigation, for example
in-river weed cutting for Flood and Coastal Risk Management purposes, and investment
to weirs and sluices that maintain a water level for navigation.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Anglian
Waterways Expenditure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017
Forecast</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,839,710</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,299,677</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,704,044</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,125,984</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,142,018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,919,461</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
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</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over the next three
years the Environment Agency will continue to invest the income it receives from registration
charges collected from the users on the Anglian waterways. From March 2017 this is
expected to be £2,265m per annum. The Environment Agency also secures funding from
within the organisation which is negotiated on an annual basis.</p><p> </p><p>As part
of the 2015 Spending Review the Environment Agency’s capital settlement from Defra
was £3m pa over the next three years to be spent across all our waterways. Funding
will be allocated to assets which will benefit the most from investment. Anglian waterways
will receive a proportion of this funding.</p>
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