{"id":10812,"date":"2014-02-11T00:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T23:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10812"},"modified":"2014-02-11T00:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T23:30:40","slug":"river-thames-water-level-stabilised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10812","title":{"rendered":"The River Thames Water Level has Stabilised in Abingdon and should now go down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14021002.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Water Level\" \/><br \/>\nThe Water Level of the River Thames in Abingdon stabilised on the <strong>O<\/strong> of Bristol at the Iron Bridge. It was above the <strong>O<\/strong> during the last high water in January 2014.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14021001.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Water Level\" \/><br \/>\nRob sent me a picture &#8220;<em>Looking towards St Helen\u2019s from the Abingdon-Dorchester road<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The Environment Agency (EA) has been telling us since the &#8220;2007 flood&#8221; that dredging rivers is not the most cost effective way to\u00a0 prevent flooding. Their resources are limited.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14021005.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Water Level\" \/><br \/>\nSpike sent this picture of St Helen&#8217;s Mill and the River Ock. He says &#8220;<em>this flood barrier has achieved very little<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14021004.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Water Level\" \/><br \/>\nThe blue flood gate is out again at 60 East St Helens Street to keep out the Thames flood water.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14021003.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Water Level\" \/><br \/>\nThe River Thames causes some problems in Abingdon, but our forebears were sensible &#8211; building on just one side of the River Thames.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14021006.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames Water Level\" \/><br \/>\nMalcolm send me a picture of where the Ock Bridge goes under the Drayton Road &#8211; on Sunday. Here in Abingdon, it seems to be the much smaller River Ock, primarily, and the River Stert that are the main threat to properties. Malcolm says on the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140606200532\/http:\/\/safag.org.uk\/catchmentplan.html\">Safag website<\/a> that the whole catchment area of the River Ock needs managing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Water Level of the River Thames in Abingdon stabilised on the O of Bristol at the Iron Bridge. It was above the O during the last high water in January 2014. Rob sent me a picture &#8220;Looking towards St Helen\u2019s from the Abingdon-Dorchester road&#8220;. The Environment Agency (EA) has been telling us since the [&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-10812","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\/10812","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=10812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}