{"id":30195,"date":"2023-01-12T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30195"},"modified":"2023-01-12T23:09:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:09:07","slug":"nearly-back-to-average-water-storage-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30195","title":{"rendered":"Nearly back to average water storage levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202311203.jpg\" alt=\"Flood water\" \/><br \/>\nThe river had broken its banks but had not yet flooded the field.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202311201.jpg\" alt=\"Flood water\" \/><br \/>\nAt the height of the summer drought, there were a few trickles at Abingdon weir. Now there is a torrent.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202311202.jpg\" alt=\"Flood water\" \/>When Thames Water ended the hosepipe ban on 22nd November, after heavy rain in November, they said, &#8216;<em>We predict that just 60% of normal winter rain will return capacity<\/em> (that is underground sources, rivers, and reservoirs) <em>to normal by next spring.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Their December 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/water-situation-local-area-reports\/thames-water-situation-report-december-2022-summary\">situation report<\/a> says <em>&#8216;Farmoor reservoir capacity continued to increase, and by December month end was 97%. Capacity also increased to 82% in the Lower Thames reservoirs at the end of December, but this is still below the long-term average.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The river had broken its banks but had not yet flooded the field. At the height of the summer drought, there were a few trickles at Abingdon weir. Now there is a torrent. When Thames Water ended the hosepipe ban on 22nd November, after heavy rain in November, they said, &#8216;We predict that just 60% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30195","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=30195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}