{"id":12957,"date":"2014-12-10T23:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T22:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2014-12-10T23:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T22:58:04","slug":"reducing-the-risk-of-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12957","title":{"rendered":"Reducing the Risk of Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Abingdon Herald features three Abingdon Flood Prevention schemes which have a better chance of going ahead now that central government has promised an extra \u00a32.3 billion towards improving flood defenses.<\/p>\n

There is some information about these projects from the Environment Agency at https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/programme-of-flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-schemes<\/a> .
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\nThe most significant project would be the River Ock Flood Storage Area. That must mean holding water the other side of the A34 and releasing it more slowly. The project still needs a detailed business case, and funding agreement with partners. It could reduce the risk of flooding for 240 houses at a cost of \u00a33.42m. Earliest start of construction would be 2016 to 2018. (Pictures from Ock Street, Drayton Road and near Caldecott Road in July 2007)<\/p>\n

Alleviation for flooding of 2 properties by the River Stert, in Abingdon, could go ahead much sooner at a cost of \u00a3140K. The third Abingdon project would be a wall by St Helen’s Mill to protect 10 households from the River Ock – costing \u00a30.57m.<\/p>\n

The \u00a342 million for the Oxford Western Conveyance is more complex, and has an earliest start of construction from 2018 to 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Abingdon Herald features three Abingdon Flood Prevention schemes which have a better chance of going ahead now that central government has promised an extra \u00a32.3 billion towards improving flood defenses. There is some information about these projects from the Environment Agency at https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/programme-of-flood-and-coastal-erosion-risk-management-schemes . The most significant project would be the River Ock Flood […]<\/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-12957","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\/12957","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=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}