{"id":34952,"date":"2026-02-02T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34952"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:53:22","slug":"river-levels-remain-high-on-the-river-thames-around-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34952","title":{"rendered":"River levels remain high on the River Thames around Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026020109.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRiver levels on the Thames around Abingdon remain high this week, with flooding of low-lying land.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/20260208.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn places, flooding appears to be coming up from below, with a high water table leaving the ground saturated even where the river has not visibly spilled over.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/20260203.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhile levels are beginning to fall, the ground is now saturated, and levels could rise again if further heavy rainfall arrives upstream.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/20260201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe weir gates now appear to be fully open. This may explain why the weir walk was closed in advance as a safety precaution. The closure removes a well-used circular route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River levels on the Thames around Abingdon remain high this week, with flooding of low-lying land. In places, flooding appears to be coming up from below, with a high water table leaving the ground saturated even where the river has not visibly spilled over. While levels are beginning to fall, the ground is now saturated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flood","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34952","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=34952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}