{"id":23774,"date":"2019-12-18T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23774"},"modified":"2019-12-18T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:21:54","slug":"river-ock-after-recent-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23774","title":{"rendered":"River Ock after recent rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121801.jpg\" alt=\"River Ock high following recent rainfall\" \/><br \/>\nThe latest Environment Agency update on the River Ock says <em>&#8220;Property flooding is not currently expected. River levels remain high but continue to fall on the River Ock and Letcombe Brook following recent rainfall. Therefore, the risk of flooding is currently reducing. From this evening (18\/12\/19), through tomorrow 19\/12\/19, Friday 20\/12\/19 and the weekend, we are expecting heavy, persistent showers across the area. We therefore expect river levels to rise further over the coming days and into the early part of next week. We are closely monitoring the situation. Our incident response staff are operating weirs to reduce flood risk and are in the area clearing weed\/trash screens.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121802.jpg\" alt=\"River Ock high following recent rainfall\" \/><br \/>\nTesco cannot be reached along the Ock Path from Mill Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121803.jpg\" alt=\"River Ock high following recent rainfall\" \/><br \/>\nNor can Tesco be reached on the path from Chaunterell Way.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121804.jpg\" alt=\"River Ock high following recent rainfall\" \/><br \/>\nThere was an Environment Agency van parked near Tesco monitoring the situation. <\/p>\n<p>There is normally a height difference at this River Ock weir, where the river is divided into two streams, but today there was no waterfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Environment Agency update on the River Ock says &#8220;Property flooding is not currently expected. River levels remain high but continue to fall on the River Ock and Letcombe Brook following recent rainfall. Therefore, the risk of flooding is currently reducing. From this evening (18\/12\/19), through tomorrow 19\/12\/19, Friday 20\/12\/19 and the weekend, we [&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-23774","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\/23774","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=23774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}