{"id":12640,"date":"2014-10-27T22:51:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12640"},"modified":"2014-10-27T22:51:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:51:15","slug":"a-tale-of-two-gravel-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12640","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Gravel Pits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest of the Radley Gravel Pits was pumped dry at the start of 2004. A fence was erected, and the pit was pumped full of fuel ash slurry from Didcot Power Station.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06022002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBy the start of 2006 when <a href=\"http:\/\/abingdon2006.blogspot.co.uk\/2006\/02\/radley-ash-disposal-lake.html\">featured on this blog<\/a> there stretched a black morass, partly covered by reeds and grass.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14102705.jpg\" alt=\"Two Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nA fence still surrounds the area &#8211; marked by lifebuoys; but now ten years since the gravel pit was filled, trees have grown to cover about half of the area, and are colonising the other half.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14102713.jpg\" alt=\"Two Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nNearby Thrupp Lake was saved from a similar fate by the Save Radley Lakes campaigners. It had already matured into a lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest of the Radley Gravel Pits was pumped dry at the start of 2004. A fence was erected, and the pit was pumped full of fuel ash slurry from Didcot Power Station. By the start of 2006 when featured on this blog there stretched a black morass, partly covered by reeds and grass. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","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=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}