 It flows through Hardmead Lock and Stanstead Lock, which have had automatic sluice gates installed to cope with high water levels.At Feildes Weir a parallel channel has been constructed.The channel then skirts the Glen Faba Lake and passes under Dobbs Weir Road before entering the North Lagoon of the Nazeing Meads lake complex and leaving at the South Lagoon at Nazeing Weir.