{"id":10495,"date":"2014-01-05T00:35:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10495"},"modified":"2014-01-05T00:35:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T23:35:01","slug":"watching-the-water-level-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10495","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Water Level Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZX-lvhR5Grk\/UsiULkBDJVI\/AAAAAAAAQQI\/l39Tnz4SP24\/s1600\/14010501.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZX-lvhR5Grk\/UsiULkBDJVI\/AAAAAAAAQQI\/l39Tnz4SP24\/s1600\/14010501.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Ock Mill Flood Barrier, installed on Christmas Eve, is now saturated on both sides. I was told by one local resident that when the water gets through the barrier it has nowhere to run away.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-fjUL60iF3hA\/UsiVcT_RrLI\/AAAAAAAAQQc\/1b8FqWUgd3k\/s1600\/14010506.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-fjUL60iF3hA\/UsiVcT_RrLI\/AAAAAAAAQQc\/1b8FqWUgd3k\/s1600\/14010506.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Marina Park has been an island for quite a few days now but is getting increasingly further from the mainland.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-G9yJA6Iaelo\/UsiVv4fW0FI\/AAAAAAAAQQk\/Eb6YvsL5wuY\/s1600\/14010502.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-G9yJA6Iaelo\/UsiVv4fW0FI\/AAAAAAAAQQk\/Eb6YvsL5wuY\/s1600\/14010502.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Ock Valley Walk has been cordoned off &#8211; as has The Margaret Brown Gardens.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZNoX4ort6yI\/UsiV_-YhWuI\/AAAAAAAAQQs\/_sBaxgkZ9rA\/s1600\/14010503.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZNoX4ort6yI\/UsiV_-YhWuI\/AAAAAAAAQQs\/_sBaxgkZ9rA\/s1600\/14010503.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe houses on the Ladygrove Estate were flooded in 2007 but that was an extraordinary summer event when the water rose very suddenly. The current <a href=\"http:\/\/watermaps.environment-agency.gov.uk\/wiyby\/wiyby.aspx?lang=_e&#038;topic=floodmap&#038;layer=0&#038;x=449686&#038;y=196876&#038;scale=10&#038;location=OX14+5BP#x=449686&#038;y=196876&#038;scale=10\">Environment Agency Map<\/a> shows risks of flooding. A few houses appear to be high (greater than 1 in 30 years), and some are medium (between 1 in 30 and 1 in 100 years) and more are low (between 1 in hundred and 1 in a thousand years).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--JDBuPWRiHA\/UsiW34xBUzI\/AAAAAAAAQRA\/na8-lNqpB48\/s1600\/14010507.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--JDBuPWRiHA\/UsiW34xBUzI\/AAAAAAAAQRA\/na8-lNqpB48\/s1600\/14010507.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe River Thames has such a wide floodplain that it has not caused much Abingdon flooding, in recent times, but there is still a lot more water to come down, and more rain is forecast. So I would expect there are people watching the water level again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ock Mill Flood Barrier, installed on Christmas Eve, is now saturated on both sides. I was told by one local resident that when the water gets through the barrier it has nowhere to run away. The Marina Park has been an island for quite a few days now but is getting increasingly further from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}