Flood Drop-in

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You are invited to go along to a local drop-in session on Wednesday 28 March 2018 anytime from 2.30pm to 7pm. Members of the project team will be on hand to discuss flood risk reduction proposals for Abingdon and for residents to share their comments and local knowledge. The drop-in will be at: Abingdon Community Free Space, 18 Bury Street, Abingdon.

The plans will be on display in the same venue from 26 March to 1 April for those unable to attend the drop-in.

Communities in Abingdon have experienced flooding in the past. The most dramatic recent occurrence was in 2007 when over 400 properties were flooded. The Environment Agency, the Vale of White Horse and Oxfordshire Councils have been working in partnership to better understand the causes of this flooding and identify actions that could reduce the risk in the future.

They have been looking into a number of options all of which include a potential flood storage area at Abingdon Common with possible complementary measures such as natural flood management and property level resilience to further reduce flood risk.

4 thoughts on “Flood Drop-in

  1. Janet

    We have to see what effect the flood defences which are proposed to be built around Oxford have on Abingdon.

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  2. hester

    Janet – those of us who went to the Community-Led Plan meeting on Tuesday heard a bit about this. Apparently several independent studies have been done – one at the request of Sutton Courtenay residents by their chosen consultant – and all are agreed that the Oxford flood defences will not have any adverse impact downstream.

    I think we were told some years ago that the idea was to get the water flowing more quickly around Oxford and that worried a lot of us; what I am now hearing is that the plan also involves holding water back upstream from Oxford so that it is released more slowly..There was a similar exhibition about that in FreeSpace last year, but hopefully the EA people there this year will be able to answer those questions as well.

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