{"id":28502,"date":"2022-01-25T00:28:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28502"},"modified":"2022-01-25T00:28:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:28:19","slug":"sesro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28502","title":{"rendered":"SESRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022012405.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon reservoir, also known as SESRO (South East Strategic Reservoir Option) is being consulted on as part of a raft of measures in the South East of England, across six water companies, to ensure future water supplies. A lot of the measure got through the gate 1 decision process in January 2022, as tested by OFWAT (the UK Water Services Regulation Authority), and now go towards gate 2. You can have your say on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrse.org.uk\/\">WRSE<\/a> website. WRSE stands for Water Resource South East.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they thought by calling it SESRO nobody would notice, but the Abingdon Herald have already produced a detailed report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/19855745.plans-huge-reservoir-abingdon-explained\/\">Plans for huge reservoir near Abingdon explained\/<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022012403.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon reservoir was proposed on two occasions since this blog started in 2006 and been turned down. It would cover a large area of farmland, south of Abingdon, across the A34 from Drayton, so about three miles from Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022012402.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis picture shows the A34 bordering the flat farmland with Steventon in the distance.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022012404.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nJust to mention that the new layby on the A34, built last year, should have a view over the reservoir if it ever gets built. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon reservoir, also known as SESRO (South East Strategic Reservoir Option) is being consulted on as part of a raft of measures in the South East of England, across six water companies, to ensure future water supplies. A lot of the measure got through the gate 1 decision process in January 2022, as tested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reservoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502","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=28502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}