{"id":21748,"date":"2018-12-20T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21748"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:44:00","slug":"reducing-flooding-in-abingdon-december-2018-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21748","title":{"rendered":"Reducing flooding in Abingdon &#8211; December 2018 Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (on our return from doing <a href=\"https:\/\/notabingdon.blogspot.com\">The Not Abingdon Blog<\/a>), I received the latest newsletter from the Environment Agency (EA) about reducing flooding in Abingdon. Here is a summary &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18122003.jpg\" alt=\"Reducing flooding in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe newsletter brings disappointing news concerning the proposed&nbsp;flood storage area for the River Ock west of the A34. This would have held back flood water whenever there is a large deluge that threatens properties. The cost of the project has gone up to around \u00a39.7m., since embankments cannot be built on existing land but need excavated foundations. So far \u00a34m has been pledged by the partnership of local councils and national government. Plans will not be developed further, and the newsletter says &#8216;<i>Our partnership do not feel there is a realistic prospect of securing this amount of funding in the short term&#8230; The scheme will be kept under review.<\/i>&#8216;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18122001.jpg\" alt=\"Reducing flooding in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe EA&nbsp;are continuing to investigate natural flood management to hold back water from flooding Abingdon and have employed a project manager to consult with land owners upstream on the River Ock. This would involve measures such as small wood dams,&nbsp; and planting hedges and woodland to slow river flow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18122004.jpg\" alt=\"Reducing flooding in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe EA have also been looking at temporary flood barriers, with pumps, to reduce the impact of flooding for specific areas in Abingdon such as Tower Close, Meadowside, Hermitage Road, Healey Close, Potenger Way and Chaunterell Way.<\/p>\n<p>The latest newsletter is not yet on the EA website at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordshirefloodtoolkit.com\/contacts\/abingdon-flood-alleviation-scheme\/\">https:\/\/www.oxfordshirefloodtoolkit.com\/contacts\/abingdon-flood-alleviation-scheme\/<\/a> but probably will be soon.<\/p>\n<p>(Pictures of flooding from this blog in July 2007.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (on our return from doing The Not Abingdon Blog), I received the latest newsletter from the Environment Agency (EA) about reducing flooding in Abingdon. Here is a summary &#8230; The newsletter brings disappointing news concerning the proposed&nbsp;flood storage area for the River Ock west of the A34. This would have held back flood water [&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-21748","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\/21748","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=21748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}