{"id":33338,"date":"2025-02-08T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33338"},"modified":"2025-02-08T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T15:53:55","slug":"posters-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33338","title":{"rendered":"Water Table Signs Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025020802.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Stop the Reservoir signs, seen in the villages surrounding the proposed SESRO reservoir site,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025020801.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nare now appearing in Abingdon town centre.<\/p>\n<p>They raise concerns about the reservoir\u2019s impact, particularly the potential rise in the water table &#8211; up to one metre.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the <span class=\"newsheader\"><strong>Water table rise of one metre<\/strong><\/span>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonreservoir.org.uk\/2024Banners.html\">Gard site says<\/a>, &#8216;On February 13th 2024 Thames Water gave a presentation on Flooding and SESRO \u00a0to Oxfordshire County Council, District Councils and other stakeholders . Its engineer from Mott MacDonald clearly stated that the Reservoir if constructed would cause a 1.0 metre rise in Groundwater level, requiring considerable \u2018mitigation\u2019. For the villages of East Hanney and Steventon this would greatly worsen existing flood conditions.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The UK government has approved the construction of a \u00a31.2 billion reservoir near Abingdon as part of a national water management plan. Local councils and community groups oppose the project, citing environmental concerns and lack of public consultation, and have initiated legal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stop the Reservoir signs, seen in the villages surrounding the proposed SESRO reservoir site, are now appearing in Abingdon town centre. They raise concerns about the reservoir\u2019s impact, particularly the potential rise in the water table &#8211; up to one metre. Explaining the Water table rise of one metre, the Gard site says, &#8216;On [&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-33338","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\/33338","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=33338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}