{"id":34236,"date":"2025-09-10T22:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34236"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:55:25","slug":"environment-agency-tests-temporary-flood-barrier-in-abingdon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34236","title":{"rendered":"Environment Agency Tests Temporary Flood Barrier in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Environment Agency (EA) today carried out a trial deployment of its temporary flood-defence barrier in Abingdon.\u00a0 Developed in response to three separate floods in January, November and December 2024, the scheme is designed to withstand a one-in-thirty-year flood event. The equipment will be stored locally and can be used to protect up to 30 homes in Chaunterell Way and Nash Drive if flooding occurs this winter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025091101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nToday\u2019s exercise allowed the EA field team to practise deployment, check alignment, and time how quickly the barrier can be installed. Three 50-metre sections were taken from crates and assembled on site. Once in place, plastic sheeting and weighted chains were laid over the structure to seal gaps and form a watertight dam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environment Agency (EA) today carried out a trial deployment of its temporary flood-defence barrier in Abingdon.\u00a0 Developed in response to three separate floods in January, November and December 2024, the scheme is designed to withstand a one-in-thirty-year flood event. The equipment will be stored locally and can be used to protect up to 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236","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=34236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}