{"id":30232,"date":"2023-01-20T19:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30232"},"modified":"2023-01-20T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:08:24","slug":"new-proposals-for-a-new-reservoir-near-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30232","title":{"rendered":"New proposals for a new reservoir near Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reading Evening Post &#8211; Thursday 21 March 1991<\/strong><br \/>\nThames Water experts expect water consumption to rocket in the next three decades and are pressing ahead with proposals for a new reservoir near Abingdon to meet demand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Haverhill Echo &#8211; Thursday 13 January 1994<\/strong><br \/>\nThames water deferred their plans to build a reservoir near Abingdon because their priority programme to identify leaks and repair them has proved successful. (Thanks to the British Newspaper Archive)<br \/>\n<img src= \"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202312002.jpg\" alt= \"Proposals for a new reservoir\"\/><br \/>\nToday in Trinity Church Abingdon, there was an exhibition by Thames Water on their draft Water Resources Plan 2024 entitled <em>&#8216;Keeping water flowing for the future&#8217;<\/em>. During the lifetime of this blog, since 2006, this is the third time a reservoir near Abingdon has been proposed as a solution to meeting water demand.<br \/>\n<img src= \"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202312003.jpg\" alt= \"Proposals for a new reservoir\"\/><br \/>\nThe displays around the exhibition showed the challenges of keeping water flowing for the future and some of the solutions. Thames Water plans to reduce leaks by 16% by 2030 and halve leaks by 2050. There is a plan for a new river abstraction at Teddington that could be built by 2030. The largest display was given to a new reservoir near Abingdon in Oxfordshire that could be available by 2040. Another option is a Severn to Thames Transfer. The consultation recommends going ahead with the Teddington scheme, followed by the reservoir near Abingdon while continuing to fix leaks.<br \/>\n<img src= \"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/202312001.jpg\" alt= \"Proposals for a new reservoir\"\/><br \/>\nGARD (Group against Reservoir Development) banners can be seen around the villages of Drayton and Steventon, immediately neighbouring the proposed reservoir. GARD&#8217;s message to Thames Water is: <em>Stop the Reservoir, fix the leaks, transfer new water from the Severn<\/em>. There are more details at the <a href= \"https:\/\/www.abingdonreservoir.org.uk\/\">Gard website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Thames Water presentations, and consultation, can be seen at <a href= \"https:\/\/thames-wrmp.co.uk\/\">thames-wrmp.co.uk<\/a>. This includes Thames Water&#8217;s reasons for choosing a new reservoir over the Severn transfer. The consultation began in November 2022 and ends Tuesday, 21st March 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Evening Post &#8211; Thursday 21 March 1991 Thames Water experts expect water consumption to rocket in the next three decades and are pressing ahead with proposals for a new reservoir near Abingdon to meet demand. The Haverhill Echo &#8211; Thursday 13 January 1994 Thames water deferred their plans to build a reservoir near Abingdon [&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-30232","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\/30232","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=30232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}