{"id":30177,"date":"2023-01-07T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30177"},"modified":"2023-01-07T22:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:23:48","slug":"storm-overflow-interactive-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30177","title":{"rendered":"Storm overflow  interactive  map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/20230701.jpg\" alt=\"Storm overflow interactive map\" \/><br \/>\nTo stop streets and houses from flooding, storm overflows act as relief valves and allow extra wastewater from drains and sewers to flow untreated into rivers. A new storm overflow interactive map has been produced by Thames Water. The map can be viewed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thameswater.co.uk\/edm-map\">https:\/\/www.thameswater.co.uk\/edm-map<\/a>, and this evening at 21:00, the map showed that storm overflow was happening upstream and downstream from Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/20230702.jpg\" alt=\"Storm overflow interactive map\" \/><br \/>\nI think the site monitored nearest to Abingdon is the one pictured near the Abingdon treatment works and was not discharging.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Newcomer for letting me know about this from an article he read in the Guardian at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jan\/05\/interactive-map-shows-thames-water-raw-sewage-discharges-in-england-rivers\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/jan\/05\/interactive-map-shows-thames-water-raw-sewage-discharges-in-england-rivers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To stop streets and houses from flooding, storm overflows act as relief valves and allow extra wastewater from drains and sewers to flow untreated into rivers. A new storm overflow interactive map has been produced by Thames Water. The map can be viewed at https:\/\/www.thameswater.co.uk\/edm-map, and this evening at 21:00, the map showed that storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30177","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=30177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}