{"id":929,"date":"2010-07-09T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=929"},"modified":"2010-07-09T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:06:08","slug":"dam-wall-pylon-high-25-metres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Pylon High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070701.jpg\" alt=\"Pylon High\" \/><br \/>\nThis stretch of road is between Drayton and Steventon,\u00a0 two\u00a0 miles south of Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Over to the left is the site of the proposed reservoir &#8211; currently the subject of a public enquiry which will judge whether Thames Water have justified the need. The enquiry room is surrounded by towering shelves of documents both for and against the reservoir. Every now and then the clerk will go to a particular folder, find a specific piece of evidence, and present it to the hearing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070702.jpg\" alt=\"Pylon High\" \/><br \/>\nThe large poster attached to the electricity pylon on the edge of the flat farmland says, &#8220;<strong>Dam Wall. Pylon High! 25 Metres<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10070703.jpg\" alt=\"Pylon High\" \/><br \/>\nThe reservoir would be constructed by hollowing out a basin and building up\u00a0surrounding walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This stretch of road is between Drayton and Steventon,\u00a0 two\u00a0 miles south of Abingdon. Over to the left is the site of the proposed reservoir &#8211; currently the subject of a public enquiry which will judge whether Thames Water have justified the need. The enquiry room is surrounded by towering shelves of documents both for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[332,339],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-pylon","tag-reservoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}