It lies in the Amsterdam–Rhine Canal, between Nieuwegein and Houten, southeast of Fort Jutphaas.

To achieve this, 40 million kilos of rocks and rubble was held in five spaces meters above the water, which would collapse with explosives.

[1] Two pumping stations were also planned on both sides of the lock, so they could still influence the flow of water, but this was never finished due to the start of the Second World War in 1940.

[1] The lock became too small for the increasingly large inland shipping vessels.

The spaces above the lock, which previously held the rocks and rubble, is temporarily used as storage of polluted soil.