{"id":29447,"date":"2022-08-01T22:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T21:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29447"},"modified":"2022-08-01T22:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T21:14:52","slug":"low-river-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29447","title":{"rendered":"Low River Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022080102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBBC News reports <em>&#8216;England had its driest July since 1935, with parts having the least rainfall on record, the Met Office has said.&#8217;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>The amount of water flowing over Abingdon Weir is the lowest I have seen. Sedges are taking over upstream from the weir.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022080101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nYour bathroom taps create more white water than Abingdon Weir. More water is going through Abingdon Lock, as the gates open for boats, than over the weir.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022080103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe River Ock flows slowly, and sedges impede more of the stream.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022080105.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLow river levels are bad for wildlife and agriculture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News reports &#8216;England had its driest July since 1935, with parts having the least rainfall on record, the Met Office has said.&#8217; The amount of water flowing over Abingdon Weir is the lowest I have seen. Sedges are taking over upstream from the weir. Your bathroom taps create more white water than Abingdon Weir. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,138,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-ock","category-river-thames","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29447","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=29447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}